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This title is part of an exciting new series for the enthusiast covering top performance cars, containing feature stories, road test narratives and complete specifications along with performance data. For serious enthusiasts, the Portfolio series is an excellent reference for collecting, restoring or buying the car of your dreams.Includes valuable information for Porsche 928 owners and enthusiasts, including road tests, technical analysis, and driving impressions, comparison tests, new model introductions, and more. The Porsche 928, introduced in 1977, is still the only 8-cylinder Porsche. It was the Porsche designed for the United States market, and because a rear-engine 911 would not pass crash test requirements, the 928 was born as a front-engine car. It was the fastest production car in the world for a good number of years and still claims many die-hard fans who love its comfort and performance. "Road & Track Porsche 928 Portfolio 1977-1994" is a great reference source for Porsche 928 fans, containing 32 of the best articles on the 928 found in the pages of "Road & Track" magazine. Articles include: "Porsche 928 Automatic"; "928 vs. Audi Quattro vs. 911"; "Porsche 928 vs. Corvette vs. Porsche 944 vs. Ferrari 308GTBi"; "1985 928S"; "Five part harmony-928S vs. 944 Turbo vs. 911 Cabriolet vs. 911 Turbo"; "Just desserts-928S 4"; "Swift sensation-928S 4"; "Bargain exotic-1978-1981 Porsche 928"; and "Porsche 928 GTS"'. This book also features more than 30 pages of full-color photos of beautiful Porsche 928s.
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W Scott Roesener
reviewed Road & Track Porsche 928 Portfolio, 1977-1994 on February 08, 2016
Road & Track Porsche 928 Portfolio
I am not interested in cars. If it runs, has air conditioning, and the radio works, I'm happy. So I don't think I was the target audience for a book dedicated to one car, but it was very enjoyable anyway. Probably because it is more about the communistic system that manufactured it and the shyster businessman who imported it than it is about the technical details of the car. It is very thorough in explaining the business dealings that brought these people together. That means that we do get a brief history of the nation of Yugoslavia starting at WW2, a thorough detailing of Bricklin's various business ventures, and a look at the car industry from Ford through the 1990s. It does get a little far from the point at times.
The author seems to take a more favorable view of the Yugo than you usually get. I don't still don't know enough about the actual car to make a call on that, because there really isn't a lot on the consumer experience with the vehicle. He seems to think that it gets a bad rap simply because it was cheap, had a horrible business model, and people wanted expensive brands. I'm afraid I wasn't really convinced that was the reason it was so disliked. He is also maybe a little impressed with the employment numbers and industrialization process in communist Yugoslavia. Still, he did feel the need to include sections that downplayed the brutality of the prison system and the suppression of dissidents. So while I did enjoy it and learned a lot, I'm unconvinced by the author's conclusions.
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