"Porsche: Excellence Was Expected explores the history of the Porsche company, its cars, and its motor racing heritage from its beginning in 1948 through its sixty years as an independent family-owned car company to its continued success in 2019 under the auspices of the Volkswagen Group. Author Karl Ludvigsen goes behind the scenes to explore the events that eventually plunged Porsche into the hands of Volkswagen. And he outlines in detail just how and why, after the final schism from the Porsche/Piech dynasty in 2012, ...
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"Porsche: Excellence Was Expected explores the history of the Porsche company, its cars, and its motor racing heritage from its beginning in 1948 through its sixty years as an independent family-owned car company to its continued success in 2019 under the auspices of the Volkswagen Group. Author Karl Ludvigsen goes behind the scenes to explore the events that eventually plunged Porsche into the hands of Volkswagen. And he outlines in detail just how and why, after the final schism from the Porsche/Piech dynasty in 2012, Porsche has continued to be Porsche. New material for the 2019 edition includes the continuing evolution of the iconic Porsche 911, allocating five chapters to dissecting the design and engineering of the Type 991 production cars and GT racers. He also looks at the continuing market success of the Cayenne, Cayman, Macan and Panamera. Competition coverage is expanded to include the exotic 918 hybrid and the winning 919 Hybrid LMP1 racer. A final chapter on Porsche's high-performance, all-electric Taycan production car points the way to the iconic sports-car maker's future."--Provided by publisher.
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Very Good-in Very Good dust jacket. 0525101179. Color and b&w Illustrations and photos; Oblong 4to 11"-13" tall; 870 pages; 1977 E. P. Dutton & Automobile Quarterly. Stout oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, stated. Binding sound but a little shake in the spine. In pebbled black cloth lettered in silver to spine and in blind to cover. Color pictorial dust jacket is uniformly bright and clean with $64.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner's ink ownership stamp and penned name and address to the front pastedown; his small bkank embossed ownership stamp to the bottom front corner of the title page. Mild toning to page edges; superficial rubbing to the cloth bottom corner tips. Just mild shelf evidence to jacket edges; flap folds a little relaxed. Profusely illustrated with historical photos, figures and graphics in b&w and color. VG-/VG...Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Small oblong 4to. 22 by 25 cm. pp 851. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Automobile quarterly library series. ISBN: 0584950500 Fine in fine dust jacket. Excellent condition.
