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Porsche: the sum of its parts

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Written by Michael Fordham

Came across this amazing ‘teardown’ video on the venerable and inspirational Le Container recently.

It’s magic being able to see the frightening amount of moving parts that goes into making the magical ‘simplicity’ that is the Porsche 911.

Without peeking into this wonderful world of mechanicity the world is a less interesting, atonal place…

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