Porsche 911: 50 Years -- Randy Leffingwell

<b>Best-selling author Randy Leffingwell celebrates a half-century of one of the world's premiere sports cars, focusing on the major themes that have defined Porsche's rear-engined wonder. </b> <p/><i>Porsche 911: 50 Years</i> tells the whole story--<b>design and development</b>, <b>racing and competition</b>, <b>engineering and technology</b>, <b>style and culture</b>. All the iconic 911 models are included: <ul><li>The <b>original 901 prototype</b> that set the standard</li><li>The legendary <b>RS models</b> that made the little Porsche a dominant force on the world's racetracks</li><li>The infamous <b>Turbo</b>, the car that kept the performance flame alight during the dark, dismal decade of the 1970s</li><li>The fabled <b>959</b>, the model that redefined the term "sports car"</li><li>The <b>993</b>, last of the original air-cooled models</li><li>The <b>996</b>, <b>997</b>, and <b>991</b>, the liquid-cooled cars that brought the 911 into a new millennium</li></ul> Beyond telling <b>the story of the cars</b>, <i>Porsche 911: 50 years</i><b>also spotlights the people behind them</b>: Ferdinand "Butzi" Porsche, the son of legendary Porsche founder <b>Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche</b>, who co-designed the instantly recognizable 911 shape; <b>Peter W. Schutz</b>, the Porsche CEO who saved the 911 from extinction; and <b>Dr. Helmuth Bott</b>, the engineering genius behind many of the groundbreaking technologies that have defined the 911, including fuel injection, turbocharging, an