Porsche: The Ultimate Guide--Everything You Need to Know About Every Porsche Ever Built 
Features: Product Description: - Porsche, with its open aerodynamic coupe body, exotic appearance and performance capabilities beyond that of a normal passenger car, has become an icon in the transportation world, not only as a sports car, but also for the status and sexy image it brings to its owner. Following in the popular style of the new full-colour Standard Catalogs, Standard Catalog of Porsche features vehicle specifications, historical data, production information, and detailed descriptions for Porsche models from 1948 through 2004 - coverage includes all Porsche models. More than 250 crisp full-colour photographs provide enthusiasts with a fleeting glimpse of this explosive automobile. Collectors, dealers, enthusiasts - all will appreciate this resource featuring valuable pricing information for one of the sleekest machines to travel the road in the history of sports cars.
Customer Ratings: - A good and complete survey of Porsche car production. An interesting, fairly complete, well written book on the history of Porsche.
The paper is of good quality, and the vast majority of the photos is in colors.
The book tries to entertain the reader without burying him under an avalanche of technical information. In my eyes, it wants to be more a survey of the Porsche production - entertaining to read for the non-initiated, if probably not at all satisfying for the geek - than an authotitative technical bible.
Please note that the book is written from an american perspective. For examples, photos are generally of the models sold in the US, etc.
The weight and dimension of the book would in my eyes have made a hardcover better suited.
All in all a satisfying read. - Not quite the ultimate guide.. This book should really be titled: Porsche: Another Guide--A Few Things You Might Need to Know About Every Porsche Ever Built. It is probably true that every Porsche is listed, but the details are far far too thin to live up to its title.
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Porsche: The Ultimate Guide--Everything You Need to Know About Every Porsche Ever Built (ID: 0873497201)
