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Some cars are built to move people. Porsche built cars that moved culture, onto racetracks and gallery walls, into film and fashion, and into the imagination of every child with a poster above the bed.Created in official collaboration with Porsche AG and drawn from the company's archives in Germa...
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A. J. Baime’s books have made the New York Times bestseller list and the New Yorker best-books-of-the-year lists. They include The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World and the forthcoming Bird Men: The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II. Baime is also the author of Rare Cars: The World’s Most Exclusive Rides, published by Assouline in 2024. Baime covered cars and motorsports for The Wall Street Journal from 2010 to 2025, and for twelve of those years, he wrote the weekly “My Ride” car column. He is an editor-at-large at Road & Track magazine, and he lives in Northern California with his family.

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The Ultimate Collection

Porsche: The Impossible Collection

$1,400

In the beginning, I looked around and could not find quite the car I dreamed of. So I decided to build it myself.

— Ferry Porsche
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Page count

200 pages

Number of illustrations

Over 150

Language

English

Released on

November 2026

Dimensions

W 16 x L 19 x D 3.5 in

Cover materials

The vinyl-wrapped padded clamshell features a deeply recessed metal plate depicting the iconic Porsche 917K. The short-tail model delivered Porsche its first overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while its Gulf-liveried iteration became a screen icon in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans (1971).

ISBN

9781649806819

Weight

20.5 lb

Author

A. J. Baime

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