Porsche 911 Story

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The Porsche 911, introduced in 1963, is still the world's favourite high-performance sports car. It is remarkable for any car to be in continuous production for this length of time, but even more so in the case of the 911 which, despite mounting competition, continues to win respect and admiration on both road and track. In this classic best-selling book - first published in 1976 and progressively updated to chronicle the car's evolution - Paul Frere describes the entire development history of the 911, from the introduction at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show of the 2-litre Butzi Porsche-styled model, through successive generations to the grand finale of the air-cooled range in 1997 with the 3.6-litre 993-series four-wheel-drive Turbo, the outstanding GT1, and the full Carrera line-up for 2006.
The decision to replace the air-cooled 911 with a completely new model was taken at the end of 1991 in a particularly gloomy period in the Porsche company's history, when its survival as an... Tovább

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The Porsche 911, introduced in 1963, is still the world's favourite high-performance sports car. It is remarkable for any car to be in continuous production for this length of time, but even more so in the case of the 911 which, despite mounting competition, continues to win respect and admiration on both road and track. In this classic best-selling book - first published in 1976 and progressively updated to chronicle the car's evolution - Paul Frere describes the entire development history of the 911, from the introduction at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show of the 2-litre Butzi Porsche-styled model, through successive generations to the grand finale of the air-cooled range in 1997 with the 3.6-litre 993-series four-wheel-drive Turbo, the outstanding GT1, and the full Carrera line-up for 2006.
The decision to replace the air-cooled 911 with a completely new model was taken at the end of 1991 in a particularly gloomy period in the Porsche company's history, when its survival as an independent manufacturer was seriously in doubt. However, the new 996-series car proved a brilliant success. Here, for the updated eighth edition of this revered book, Frere details the full development of the water-cooled Porsche 911 Carrera, complete with technical data and road test results, and assesses the new Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S models that join the Carrera and Carrera S models introduced for 2005. For Porsche enthusiasts, and those who can only dream of owning one of these thoroughbreds, this book provides a feast of reading.
Paul Frere is an engineer, journalist and former top-flight racing driver who has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the Porsche company. He has driven virtually every 911 variant and there is no-one better qualified to write the story of what is still the most aspirational - and individual - of all supercars. Vissza