The Story of Porsche: A Tribute to the Legendary Manufacturer

by Luke Smith

The Story of Porsche is a compact and beautifully designed review of the iconic car manufacturer.

From the alluring curves to the powerful engineering, Porsche has been synonymous with both luxury and race car manufacturing for more than 90 years. In The Story of Porsche, every component of the legendary brand's success is studied and celebrated, from turbulent beginnings to its ascent to the summit of car design and construction.

Blending heritage with innovation and brand identity with creativity, Porsche has produced some of the most beloved models of sport and luxury car alike. From the timeless designs of the 911 and Carrera, to the dynamism of the 917, the fabled marque has instilled class and faultless engineering into each and every one of its creations. With 19 victories at Le Mans, Porsche has also proved itself to be as successful on the racetrack as it is on the streets; revered, respected and treasured in equal measure.

These victories on both the podium and in the marketplace are rendered here in stunning detail through insightful text and exceptional photography. This is a story packed with blind corners and steep climbs, in a package that will sit perfectly on any Porsche fan's bookshelf.

Genres: Cars, History, Nonfiction

160 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2022

Reviews

[Josh Govan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read!

[Ed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author did an excellent job of capturing a condensed history of Porsche along with including wonderful photographs. Full of interesting facts and key moments in the brand’s history. There are other books that go deeper but for the majority of Porsche enthusiasts this is a great gift. The small size makes it easy to carry in backpack to read on plane/traveling. The gold hardcover looks great on our bookshelf.

[William Lahoute · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good book. Only bad things is that the photos don’t match the history we are talking about sometimes.

[Sophia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Took forever to finish (thanks life) but man I want a Porsche

[Carlos Amado · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would this book five out of five stars since I am kind of biased and Porsche is one of my favorite car brands, but like talking seriusly I actually liked to read this book and figure out about the interesting things that it had to tell me, since all of the story that this one car brand had was really unique since all the errors and tries that where before it actually started to contribute for the future of the bussisnes and the commodity of the people in the in the world and the users of Porsche, there where a lot of parts that I was actually really focused on the book since I wanted to know the story of everything and how certain types of Porsche cars originated like the 911 and 992 or even the 718 that where one of my favorite cars in the worlds since all the line of those are so beautiful and mainly sport cars. So to conclude this part this book was one of my favorite and unique books that helped me to understand various poins of view and different things in the car industry and our favorite cars since all of our favorite brands started somewhere and they where not like a first time succes so the book helps us understand a better point of view.


I think the major quesiton raised by the book was about how big dealership start and what are the story of a certain one that could really change the perspective of something that you could not see before and understand the meaning of that car dealership and story behind because you never know what happened in the past for them to bring us this awesome cars to life and to the actuallity so I think this book is really interesting and has a really good question raised, that was How did a big dealership Porsche started? Also I think overall the book had a great story telling sense and how it made everything work so I think that it is a excellent way to narrate the book and tell us chronologically what happened and in what order it happened and how the product changed over the years and what made it different from all the other revolutionary things in the market.


I think this book did helped me in my heroes journey because it was really unique and it helped me understand a little more about the trajectory that I would have to travel and the focus that I should have if I want to accomplish certain things in the world like having my own car dealership. I think that this books has teached me various life lessons and different perspectives here in the world and how I am supposed to see various things that I could not perceive before so in conclussion I think that it is unique and interesting things that I would to re read in the future.


I think that these book did change me as a reader since it was really interesting and fun to read and it did helped me to understand various things that I did not know before. I would reccomend this book to all passionated people of cars and that want to learn the stories of various things.

[Juandiego · Rating 5 out of 5]

For this book, I chose 5 stars because this book is great about the story of Porsche because it tells you about all the story and all the models that Porsche created and why they did it and it explains about how Porsche was start going down in sells and what they did to take Porsche up to be a great seller and it tells that Porsche start to not innovating and the cars looked the same and dont do anything so Porsche launched the Porsche boxter to sell and i think it was one of the cars that have the most sell of Porsche and it tell you a lot of things and the ideas of the book hoy Porsche started think about new models and think how they can make it better than other cars and also and it also talks about Porsche in endurance races like le mans and why this he go out and why Porsche go back to le mans and race and also talks about how Porsche put the hybrid little a little so car fans dont think that Porsche was doing electric cars and yes he do electric cars but most cars do it of gas and it also talks about how he put hybrid first in SUVs then in gran turismos and then on cupes electric because now Porsche is putting hybrid en 911 and it wants to do 718 electric and gas 2 different motorization and it talks a lot of things like that so it talks first about the new models like Taycan and a lot of new models and makin new cars and a lot of things like it talks about the Porsche 911 its name what 901 but Peugeot claimed the 0 in the middle of 3 digit number so Porsche put the name of 911 and it also talks about 912 that was a version of 911 but with a smaller motor and luxury so Porsche fans buy first the 912 and the Porsche stated with a version of the Volkswagen beetle with a sport look and a little faster that was the Porsche 356 and it talks about that book a lot and it also talks about porsche in rallis it win snow, road, dirt and sand so it was a great car and it win the rally dakar that is the hardest rally in world and a porsche 911 do it so now exists the porsche 911 dakar that is in a base of 4s or 4gts and it is new version fo 911 dakar. this books is a part of my heroes journey becaus e is a new book for me i can be better at reading with each book i read and it change me as a reader because it make me understan better the books and read more books so that is a great thing that change me i would recomd a lot this book to people that like books about cars or about story of brands or people like that