There are the stay-at-homes and the wanderers. The homebodies and the adventurers. The cautious and the bold. – We probably belong to the second category, and the fact that you’ve opened this book could be a compelling sign that you’re on our team as well. Yes, out there, you get skinned knees, scraped elbows, and homesickness, and yet we always have to go out again, following our noses, with a large dose of wanderlust as our compass.
It‘s the Pacific vibe: about 20 years after the start of production the Porschemuseum StefanBogner and Nicole Hettesheimer are unveiling the ultimate story about one of the most desirable super sports cars ever built: the Porsche Carrera GT. The high-performance Porsche sports car with the DNA of a racecar has its origin in a prototype secretly shaped at the former Porsche Styling Studio in Huntington Beach, California.
Calling the Porsche 550 Spyder a legend is like describing Walter Röhrl as a reasonable rally driver: an understatement, to put it mildly. In 1953 Porsche began to build cars especially designed for motorsports, starting with the 1500 RS Spyder, the then official name. The light construction with under 700 kilos kerb weight plus the powerful engine made for excellent driving performances and it was road legal, too.
We know the curves, hairpins and snaking roads of the Alpine passes all too well – at least from the driver’s perspective. Thanks to his spectacular aerial shots, Stefan Bogner now gives us a completely new angle on the world’s most stunning mountain roads on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his Curves magazine.
The “Großglockner”, Austria’s highest mountain with 3,789 m, is one of the most important summits of the Eastern Alpes – and not only because he is so important for alpine tourism. Already at the end of the 18th Century, he has been explored and nobody less than Arch Bishop Salm-Reiffenscheidt-Krautheim was the first to ascent in 1800.