Book : Porsche CARRERA GT

The expression « Race Road Car » has become nowadays very politically incorrect. However, if this expression is still meaningful today, and can still bring admiration and envy, we owe it to the Porsche Carrera GT. This book, made up of seven chapters, presents this fabulous Carrera GT, the fulfilment  of remarkable technical ambitions and of cutting-edge technology. This car was imagined in the euphoria following Porsche’s victory in the Le Mans 24-Hour endurance race in 1998, and has the mission to showcase to the world what Porsche’s know-how can come up with in the road/race department

Indeed, Porsche had to fully master the conceptual and technical challenges to be able to put on the road and offer in its product catalogue in 2003, a 612-HP roadster, a V-10 engine-equipped, race-ready, yet road-legal automobile,

What must be said, is that Porsche had to take on this challenge, because the competition at this level of excellence if not numerous, is still present. .  

This book describes the builder’s strategy, from its audacious initial choice to «civilize» a true race car, up to the public presentation of this road–able automobile. The book covers the entire manufacturing process, the most sophisticated technologies, the choices in styling, the most severe tests and trials, and the challenges in marketing such an exceptional race car, that remains in essence a race car.

This book is illustrated with an abundance of purpose-taken photographs by Peter Vann and offers the reader to a compelling invitation to travel aboard this exceptional car, with scenic backgrounds that are worthy of it.