Porsche - der Mythos. Die beeindruckende Historie reicht von Sportwagenikonen wie dem 356 Roadster zum legendären 550 A Spyder. Vom heiß begehrten 911 Carrera RS über den 911 Targa bis hin zum topaktuellen 919 Hybrid. Mit prächtigen, teilweise unveröffentlichten Fotos und fundierten Texten erzählt der Band von innovativem Design, erstklassiger Ingenieurskunst und sensationellen Motorsporterfolgen. Und auch das Thema Emotion kommt nicht zu kurz: PS-Junkies finden eine CD mit den originalen Motorensounds der besten Porsche-Modelle. Sexy wie ein 911 und wunderbar anders: Foliant, Handbuch und Designstück in einem.

This book documents in lavish detail the unique styling, engineering, and performance of Porsche’s new mid-engine coupe - the Porsche Cayman. Produced in cooperation with Porsche AG, the book includes behind-the-scenes design blueprints, studio sketches and cutaway drawings, spec information, specially commissioned photography including testing and development, and historical comparisons with the 904 racing car. Beautiful, commissioned photography and an engaging text tells the Cayman story in all its splendor—performance, technical features, handling, lightweight construction, intelligent use of space—at once a true Porsche and a unique model in its own right in the family of legendary sports cars. Leading German automotive photographers and journalists worked with Porsche, and the book is printed using a 7-color process and varnished pages for a luxurious look and feel (most illustrated books use a 4-color process and lesser glossy pages). Porsche Cayman is the ultimate collectible for any owner of the new car, and an essential contribution to any Porsche enthusiast's library.

Driving Identities examines long-standing connections between popular music and the automotive industry and how this relationship has helped to construct and reflect various socio-cultural identities. It also challenges common assumptions regarding the divergences between industry and art, and reveals how music and sound are used to suture the putative divide between human and non-human. This book is a ground-breaking inquiry into the relationship between popular music and automobiles, and into the mutual aesthetic and stylistic influences that have historically left their mark on both industries. Shaped by new historicism and cultural criticism, and by methodologies adapted from gender, LGBTQ+, and African-American studies, it makes an important contribution to understanding the complex and interconnected nature of identity and cultural formation. In its interdisciplinary approach, melding aspects of ethnomusicology, sociology, sound studies, and business studies, it pushes musicological scholarship into a new consideration and awareness of the complexity of identity construction and of influences that inform our musical culture. The volume also provides analyses of the confluences and coactions of popular music and automotive products to highlight the mutual influences on their respective aesthetic and technical evolutions. Driving Identities is aimed at both academics and enthusiasts of automotive culture, popular music, and cultural studies in general. It is accompanied by an extensive online database appendix of car-themed pop recordings and sheet music, searchable by year, artist, and title.

This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars, shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars, even though they were highly noisy things at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving.

In 1998, Porsche introduced its Type 996, the newest addition to the lineage of the Porsche 911. With the release of this new model came two significant changes: the body shell underwent major redesign and a water-cooled engine replaced the popular air-cooled engine that powered 911s for thirty-four years beforehand. Of the two changes, the replacement of the air-cooled engine with a water-cooled engine sparked the most controversy among car enthusiasts. Porsche traditionalists claimed that this replacement of the air-cooled engine with the water-cooled engine marked the end of the "true" 911, even though water-cooled engines yield more horsepower and heightened dependability. It seems clear that the bias towards the new water-cooled engine had less to do with the logistics of operating the vehicle and more to do with the experience of operating the vehicle. Because the sound of a vehicle's engine holds significant aesthetic value in both media entertainment and everyday life, it is necessary to consider a method of analysis specific to these sounds. The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of the musical aesthetics of engine sounds, which will be accomplished by analyzing car sounds in Ford v Ferrari (2019) and developing a framework to identify the technical and aesthetic qualities of real-life engine sounds as an independent musical force.

An introduction to the concepts and principles of sound design practice, with more than 175 exercises that teach readers to put theory into practice. This book offers an introduction to the principles and concepts of sound design practice, from technical aspects of sound effects to the creative use of sound in storytelling. Most books on sound design focus on sound for the moving image. Studying Sound is unique in its exploration of sound on its own as a medium and rhetorical device. It includes more than 175 exercises that enable readers to put theory into practice as they progress through the chapters.