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Joost said:
Did anybody see it?
As I've started the thread I should comment on the film
Basically it's a compilation of portraits of Porsche lovers and their cars.
Not much tech info about the cars or about the development of Porsche's line-up from the beginning up to date, it's more about the different personalities of the owners and about their attitude towards their cars/towards the brand.
You see a bunch of very different characters like:
The old lady who received her 911 as a 20th marriage anniversary gift from her husband some 33 years ago - still driving the car and abusing it as a shopping car
The rich jeweller from MA. who seems to get a hard-on when washing one of his old P-beauties
The movie director in Hollywood driving his CGT between the movie studio buildings (admitted, that he can use the car's power only on 4th July in the Nevada desert, but then "it feels like God own's ass-kick")
A Florida couple picking up their new 997S cab in Zuffenhausen
Jerry Seinfeld explaining his love for Porsches ("The unique thing about Porsches is that you can feel the tension in every part of them")
A blind (!) German judge who uses to drive his aircooled Carreras at an airfield (and who uses to maintain/repair the cars himself)
A typical "bling customer" who never uses the power of his 996 TT cab, but who got every part of his car painted in the exactly same strange orange like his favourite deco plate at home
Some collectors in Switzerland with unbelievable garages full of old Porsches - all in mint condition
Not much driving scenes except some really nice scenes from the Porsche snow camp in Finland.
Nice interview with Herbert Linge (former Weissach engineer and PAG race pilot in the old days - actually he was Steve Mc Queen's "race double" in the famous Le Mans movie). Mr Linge also has been in charge of building up PAG's distribution network in the US (some nice stories about how they introduced the first Porsches - 356 - in the US, when such tiny cars with small displacement haven't been exactly
what you'd call mainstream in the US)
IMO the film is more about the people (wide span of characters of Porsche lovers) than the cars or Porsche's history - still nice to watch, but for the hardcore fan a bit superficial (the passion thing doesn't come across that authentic IMO). I guess the target audience are "normal people" (not piston heads)
who want to take a glimpse into the world of P-addicted people (peep-show like)
You can order the documentary on DVD (either English or German language) at florianfilm.de (link: Supermarkt) for 20 Euro .