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POR S CHE Y E A R S R ANDY LEFFING WELL
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL FURMAN
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POR S CHE Y E A R S R ANDY LEFFING WELL
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL FURMAN
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 6 CHAPTER 11
Working for a Partner
INTRODUCTION 1970 Typ 914 and 914/6 76
Seventy Years of Porsche 8
CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 1 Porsche Redefined New Technology
Porsche: Defined 1964–1965 Typ 901/902 46 1972–1973 Typ 917/10 and 917/30 82
1948 Typ 356 Gmünd Coupe 12
CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 2 Compromise Engineered Legend Enhanced
Racer: Devised 1967 Porsche Typ 911 S Targa 52 1973 Typ 911 Carrera RS 2.7 90
1953 Porsche 550 Spyder 18
CHAPTER 8
Legend Founded
1968 Porsche Typ 911 R 56
CHAPTER 9
Targets Sighted
1966 Typ 906/1967 Typ 910/1968 Typ 907
and 909/1968–1969 Typ 908 62
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 3 Target Attacked CHAPTER 14
Chasing the Alphabet Brand Initiated
1969–1972 Typ 917K and 917L 68
1955–1965 Porsche Typ 356 26 1975 Typ 930 Turbo 98
CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 15
Stepping Up Competition Assaulted
1962 Typ 804 Formula One Car 36 1976 Typ 934 and 935 Coupes 106
CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 16
New Materials Porsche Redefined
C 1964 Porsche Typ 904 Carrera GTS 40 1976 Typ 924/1978 Typ 928/1982
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CHAPTER 25 CHAPTER 31
Yet Another Definition Back to the Future
2002 Cayenne 178 2011 Typ 918 Spyder 214
CHAPTER 26 CHAPTER 32
Revisiting the Supercar Engineering Advances as Typ Numbers Recalibrate
CHAPTER 17
2004 Carrera GT 184 2012 Typ 991 220
Competition Decimated
1982 Typ 956/962 122 CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 33
Engineering and Styling Refinement
Diversifying the Bold Idea
CHAPTER 18 2005 Typ 997 190
2014 Macan Typ 95B 228
New Horizons Reached
1984 TAG-P01 128 CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 34
Return to Battle
Turning Up the Voltage
CHAPTER 19 RS Spyder 196
2014 Porsche Typ 919 Hybrid LMP1 234
Legend Enhanced
Typ 959 134
CHAPTER 35
Facing Another Necessity
CHAPTER 20
2016 Typ 991 Generation II Carrera and Carrera S 238
All-Wheel Drive for All
1990 Typ 964 Carrera 4 142
CHAPTER 36
Porsche Redefines Itself, Again
CHAPTER 21
2020 Mission E 246
End of an Era
Typ 993 150
Conclusion 250
Index 252
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 22
Partnering Existing Models
Leveling the Playing Field
2006 Typ 987 Cayman 200
1996–1998 Typ 911 GT1 156
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 23
Still Another Definition
Another New Definition
2009 Panamera 206
1997 Typ 986 Boxster 166
CHAPTER 24
Necessity Acknowledged
1998 Typ 996 172
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Any history is only as good as the research, reporting, and reasoning behind it. For ten
years now, I’ve been fortunate to work with Dieter Landenberger, manager of the Porsche
Archiv, and for longer than that with Jens Torner, Porsche’s photo archive manager.
Both of these men, now friends, have helped incalculably to make Jeanie Ingram, whose extraordinary collection in North Carolina
my Porsche reporting better, more interesting, more accurate, and documents Porsche’s seventy-year history. Further thanks go to
more pertinent. I am deeply in their debt for their influence and the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, to William “Chip”
support. I also want to acknowledge Yvonne Knotek and Tobias Connor, to the late Matthew Drendel, and to Jeff and Marge Lewis.
Mauler of the Porsche Archiv for their generous help in finding The concept for this book—Porsche’s history and the culture
people, stories, information, and images. surrounding it—originated with my publisher Zack Miller. It’s
During the past twenty-five years, I have done other books an idea that has fascinated me since he proposed it, and it
about Porsche, and I am very grateful to the engineers, designers, provided a new perspective on the accomplishments of this
managers, and racers who have given me their time to explain company in the times that influenced and impacted it. I am
and illuminate history. For this particular telling, I specially grateful also to my longtime editor, Darwin Holmstrom, for his
appreciate the information and stories from August Achleitner, ongoing efforts to make me a better writer.
Jürgen Barth, Derek Bell, Helmut Flegl, Bernd Kahnau, Eugen Lastly, I want to thank four friends—Dave Engelman, Warner
Kolb, Thomas Krickelberg, Roland Kussmaul, Harm Lagaay, Grant Hall, George Reilly, and Pete Stout—who have for years and for
Larson, Horst Marchart, Hans Mezger, Erhard Mössle, Valentin this book been sounding boards for ideas and concepts, and
Schäffer, Gerhard Schröder, Peter Schutz, and Rolf Sprenger. who have read pages and/or made suggestions that measurably
The most beautiful photographs in this book come from improved what I do.
Michael Furman and his team. Michael has a long love affair with It is to these four that I dedicate this book. Thank you!
Porsche—a car of his was on the cover of my first book about
the marque, Porsche Legends. In addition, I am deeply grateful Randy Leffingwell
to the exceptional generosity and deep friendship with Robert and Santa Barbara, CA
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