{"id":751587,"date":"2013-12-17T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=751587"},"modified":"2024-12-09T03:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:31:01","slug":"book-review-porsche-911-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/book-review-porsche-911-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Porsche 911: 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sc1-201402-p3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-525430 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sc1-201402-p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sc1-201402-p3.jpg 697w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sc1-201402-p3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sc1-201402-p3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sc1-201402-p3-293x294.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>Porsche 911: 50 Years<\/h3>\n<p>Bestselling author Randy Leffingwell celebrates a half-century of one of the world\u2019s premiere sports cars, focusing on the major themes that have defined Porsche&#8217;s rear-engined wonder. He tells the whole story\u2014design and development, racing and competition, engineering and technology, style and culture.<\/p>\n<p>All the iconic 911 models are included: the original 901 prototype that set the standard; the legendary RS models that made the little Porsche a dominant force on the world\u2019s racetracks; the infamous Turbo, the car that kept the performance flame alight during the dark, dismal decade of the 1970s; the fabled 959, the model that redefined the term \u201csports car\u201d; the 993, last of the original air-cooled models; and the 996, 997, and 991, the liquid-cooled cars that brought the 911 into a new millennium.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond telling the story of the cars, this book also spotlights the people behind them: Ferdinand \u201cButzi\u201d Porsche, the son of legendary Porsche founder Ferdinand \u201cFerry\u201d Porsche, who co-designed the instantly recognizable 911 shape; Peter W. Schutz, the Porsche CEO who saved the 911 from extinction; and Dr. Helmuth Bott, the engineering genius behind many of the groundbreaking technologies that have defined the 911, including fuel injection, turbocharging, and all-wheel-drive. Leffingwell also tells the story of the 911 community\u2014the clubs and culture that surround the car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>$50 @\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.motorbooks.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche 911: 50 Years Bestselling author Randy Leffingwell celebrates a half-century of one of the world\u2019s premiere sports cars, focusing on the major themes that have defined Porsche&#8217;s rear-engined wonder. He tells the whole story\u2014design and development, racing and competition, engineering and technology, style and culture. All the iconic 911 models are included: the original 901 prototype that set the standard; the legendary RS models that made the little Porsche a dominant force on the world\u2019s racetracks; the infamous Turbo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,16906,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,89,18837,17945,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-751587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-porsche","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-porsche","tag-porsche-911","tag-porsche-books","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Porsche 911: 50 Years<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/book-review-porsche-911-50-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Book Review] Porsche 911: 50 Years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Porsche 911: 50 Years Bestselling author Randy Leffingwell celebrates a half-century of one of the world\u2019s premiere sports cars, focusing on the major themes that have defined Porsche&#8217;s rear-engined wonder. 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