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Porsche: Excellence Was Expected: The Comprehensive History of the Company, its Cars and its Racing Heritage by Karl Ludvigsen Hardcover, 9-1/2 in. x 10-1/2 in., 1,566 pages 1,480 b&w and 144 color photos and illustrations Three-volume set with slipcase Bentley Stock Number: GPEX EXCELLENCE WAS EXPECTED ISBN: 0-8376-0235-1 Price: $239.95 Volume 3 Volume 1 Volume 2 Slipcase capable of housing all three volumes Porsche: Excellence Was Expected sets are individually cartoned Volume 2, pages 728 and 729 with protective styrofoam. Each set weighs 22 pounds! Visit our website to see a movies of the box being opened and the book being launched at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Sample chapters are also online. Volume 1, pages 12 and 13 Volume 2, pages 948 and 949 Volume 3, pages 1414 and 1415 What people are saying about Porsche: Excellence Was Expected A fully updated edition of “. it’s the only book to have on the sports cars from Stuttgart Porsche: Excellence Was Expected is if you’ll only have one.” now available from Bentley Publishers! This new edition covers —Pete Stout, Excellence Porsche’s history from its inception through the launch of the 2003 A must-have for anyone with a Seinfeldesque level of Porschephilia. Carrera GT supercar. The three-volume, 1,566 page set contains —Mike Austen, Automobile 1,480 black and white photos and 144 color photos, including 103 color illustrations of Porsche production and racing cars commis- . Excellence Was Expected, edition two is a necessity on sioned specifi cally for Excellence Was Expected. Expanded and the enthusiast’s bookshelf. —Dr. Bill Block, 356 Registry edited versions of the 32 chapters from the 1977 edition have now been augmented by an additional 29 chapters. In his defi nitive “His Porsche book is . a work that every real car enthusiast history of Porsche, Ludvigsen presents the inner workings, master- in the world should have in his library.” pieces and failures of an independent automaker that has exerted —David E. Davis, Car and Driver a disproportionately powerful infl uence on the automotive industry. “Ludvigsen, being Ludvigsen, does not waffl e, philosophize Ludvigsen’s masterwork sets the bar high for what a marque history or indulge in his own theories at the expense of the facts.” should be, just as the company it chronicles continues to shape our —Graham Robson, Thoroughbred & Classic Cars very defi nition of the term “sports car.” 1-800-423-4595 1734 Massachusetts Avenue More information on every title Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 USA is available on our website 617-547-4170 617-876-9235 /Fax Volume One Volume Two Volume Three covers years covers years covers years 1900–1971 1968–1994 1981–2003 Although Porsche The 1970s and 1980s Although a success- was long an important were years of intense ful and profi table force in the design of innovation for the sports-car and SUV German automobiles, Porsche factory. In manufacturer in its fi rst efforts at build- fact, 1970 was to see 2003, the 1990s ing its own vehicles the tiny automaker ful- witnessed signifi cant only matured in the early years after World War fi ll a major goal: its fi rst overall victory at LeMans. swings in Porsche’s fortunes. In the mid-1980s, II in the unlikely location of a sawmill in Gmünd, As the decade progressed, the company became the company’s exploration of the FIAs Group B Austria, and survived the internment of both a force in every arena of motorsports it entered, resulted in the fabulous all-wheel-drive 959 of Professor Ferdinand Porsche and Ferry Porsche. including Can Am, where Mark Donohue, George 1988. It was fast, sophisticated and beautiful. It From those modest beginnings, author Ludvigsen Follmer and the mighty Penske Racing 917s was also a money takes the reader through Porsche’s move back literally decimated loser for the com- Highlights in Volume 3: to Stuttgart and its fi rst forays into racing with its Models in Volume 2: the competi- pany. In this same • Porsche’s 959 supercar road cars. tion. Ludvigsen period, Porsche Road Competition • Formula I engine supplier Soon, in the tradition of Prof. Porsche, the discusses in depth won the Paris-Dakar 911 2.4 917 • A new 911 company defi ned itself as one that found its the development Rally and conquered 914 Carrera RSR • Boxter success own unique engineering solutions to any chal- and campaigning of 914/6 934 the highest levels • 993 and 996 lenge. For its own cars that meant exploiting the 356B 935 Porsche’s thorough- of Formula 1 with • Cayenne SUV Volkswagen formula of a rear-mounted air-cooled 912E 936 bred racers from the McLaren-TAG • Carrera GT engine driving the rear wheels. Those challenges 924 924 Carrera this seminal era. team. In contrast, also included competition, fi rst at the local level 924 Turbo GTP Porsche had Porsche lost its way with the CART program and and soon on the international stage. Class wins 928 TAG/Mclaren long known the ben- experienced a disappointing return to Formula 1 by 356 coupes and 911SC 953-Paris efi ts of placing an in 1991 with the Footwork Arrows team. Carrera Dakar 550 Spyders at Le Models in Volume 1: engine amidships Porsche continued to extract greater per- Mans soon yielded to 930 Turbo 956 for its racing cars. formance and sophistication from its 928 and Road Competition overall victory in the 944 962 However, in the late the many variations of the 944. But this model 356 550 1956 Targa Florio. 1960s, Porsche proliferation and the rise of the dollar took its toll American 550A Gradually the 356 Roadster RSK and Volkswagen collaborated on a mid-engined on Porsche. evolved and matured. 356A RS60 sports car for the road. The author describes With the departure of chief Peter Schutz, em- After a long and fruit- 356B RS61 the development of this vehicle as well as its phasis gradually retuned to the 911, with the in- ful life it was super- 356C 904 fortunes in the market place and its ventures onto troduction of the vastly revised 911 (964) in Car- seded by the brilliant Carrera 2 906 racing circuits. He even discusses the sole pair rera 2 and Carrera 4 versions. By the mid-1990s, 911 in 1965. In the 911 907 of potent 914-based sportscars powered by the the 911—as the Type 993 —was Porsche’s only same way some of 912 910 company’s eight-cylinder racing motor. product, although it was available in coupe, Targa, the old guard, such 911S In the late Cabriolet and Turbo forms, with both two- and as Huschke von 1970s, the four-wheel-drive confi gurations. Variations of Hanstein who ran public relations and competi- company Highlights in Volume 2: the 911 also tions, gave way to young Turks like Ferdinand adopted front- • The mid-engined 914 performed with Models in Volume 3: Piëch. Meanwhile the company continued its mounted • 917 and the victory at LeMans distinction on the march towards the highest levels of motorsports engines and • Return of the Carrera Road Competition track, by way of contests, scoring victories in endurance racing, water-cooling • Turbo 911s 959 961 the GT1, GT2 Formula 1, rallying and on many different national in a move that • The front-engined Porsches 928GT Footwork and GT3 racers • Porsche builds a V-8 venues was expected 944 Turbo Arrows available from the • Racing in Group C 944S 911 GT2 across the to spell the Porsche factory 968 (993) Highlights in Volume 1: globe. end for the 911 (964) 911S LM With the return • Designs for others This fi rst venerable 911. The 924 and the impressive 911 (993) Carrera RS of manufacturing • Porsche becomes and automaker period of V-8 928 were both extremely successful in the Boxter 3.8 specialist Wendelin • The 356 on the road Porsche American market, their primary target. Just as 911 (996) GT1/96 Wiedeking in 1992 • Four-cam Porsches history was importantly, the Porsche engineers saw them as Cayenne 911 GT3 Cup came massive • Porsche Formula I the most cars that could be more easily made to comply Carrera GT GT1/98 changes that led • Birth of the 911 pivotal. with ever-tightening Federal noise and emissions 911 GT3R to new effi ciencies • Contesting the big races Under Ferry standards than the 911. Yet the evergreen 911 911 GT3RS within the com- Porsche refused to be displaced and continued to be 911 GT2 pany. In addition, the young car company confi rmed its impeccable developed and improved along side the newer (996) the company made engineering credentials, became known globally front-engined cars. While detailing the company’s a stock offering through competition and continued its cautious models and its competition activities, Ludvigsen and reached into reserves to provide develop- expansion while remaining privately held and also explores the company’s maturation process, ment funds for a pair of new automobiles which proudly independent of bankers.