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Drive - The Definitive History of Motoring
A car book which takes you through motoring history, from classic cars to how we enjoy driving today, and beyond. As Jodie Kidd says in her introduction "Sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the ride". From the public's amazement at the idea of a horseless carriage to today's excitement for driverless vehicles, find out everything you need to know about motoring from 1895 to the present day.
Begin your journey through the history of motoring with Drive, and weave your way through the twists and turns of the early days, through to how the motorcar has shaped the modern world over the last century.
It also reveals the exciting and impressive advances in technology and design that have made cars faster, safer, and better to drive, and transformed them from a means of transport into objects of status, excitement, and desire. Speed through personal accounts of motoring throughout the years, and discover exciting new facts about the world's most famous racing events.
From the first service stations to the latest fuel cell, this book tells the full motoring story.
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Author:
Giles Chapman
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360 pages, 31 x 26 x 2.9 cm / 12.2 x 10.25 x 1.14 in, hardback
The Car Book stylishly shows you everything you might want to know about the history of the automobile. With stunning visual images and over 2,000 cars featured, the evolution of the car is tracked from decade to decade and across international borders, from India's Ambassador to Italy's Alfa Romeo.
Ever wondered how Porsche and Chevrolet became household names? Discover the stories behind the men and the machines that created the most famous marques and take a virtual tour of the anatomy of iconic cars from each era.
If you love cars, then you'll love this - The Car Book is simply a must-have title for all car enthusiasts.
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360 pages, 30.5 x 26 x 2.9 cm / 12 x 10.25 x 1.14 in, hardback
Voitures audacieuses, enthousiasmes et déceptions de l'aventure automobile
Originality has always been one of the characteristics of the automobile, but not the rule. The need to innovate for technical or stylistic reasons has often resulted in different, endearing cars. They sometimes had the defects of their qualities: lack of reliability because of their sophistication, exorbitant price... Which gave birth to cars like the Tucker or Jensen Interceptor FF sometimes produced in a few dozen copies! Others immediately convinced the general public and were produced in millions of copies for decades! Bold cars are not the prerogative of certain brands or a given period, but throughout the history of the automobile, models have stood out, whatever their price, nationality or era.
This book is not intended to be an exhaustive catalog but a work telling their story, illustrated with numerous documents and accompanied by surprising anecdotes. It will appeal to both the informed amateur and the novice interested in automobiles.
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Author:
Aurélien Gueldry
Details:
128 pages, 25.5 x 25.5 cm / 10 x 10 in, hardback
Illustrations:
350 colour photos
Publisher:
ETAI (F, 2006)
ISBN:
9782726894675
Voitures audacieuses, enthousiasmes et déceptions de l'aventure automobile
As the little one mixes with the big story, we discover that the leading roles of the greatest actors, singers and other VIPs have often been played by their partner cars... Aren't Bullit's Ford Mustang, the Jaguar XK 120 or the psychedelic Rolls Phantom V inextricably linked to Steve McQueen, Françoise Sagan and John Lennon? Beyond the fiction of a diabolical Plymouth Fury, the heroine of Christine, the reality of the almost eternal life of certain cars far exceeds the wildest imagination.
A richly illustrated story, teeming with anecdotes and secrets that, without this book, would have remained forever buried in the most tightly closed drawers. Stories of love, passion, gentle madness or grandeur, between extraordinary people and cars.
In this book, Dennis Adler introduces us to over 50 American, English, German, Italian, French and Japanese convertibles through a collection of superb colour photographs, including full technical specifications and production figures, as well as historical facts and anecdotes about each model. He places particular emphasis on their innovations in styling, performance, interiors, engines, etc.
Dennis Adler takes us to the heart of the original style of the automobile in its purest form. Why original? Because, Adler explains, "in the beginning, there were only convertibles and cabriolets."
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Author:
Dennis Adler
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240 pages, 21 x 16.5 cm / 8.25 x 6.5 in, paperback
Personenwagen aus Osteuropa - Was nicht in die DDR importiert wurde (Typenkompass)
This book complements the two previously published Typenkompass volumes "DDR-Personenwagen" and "DDR-Personenwagen - Importe aus RGW-Staaten". Many types of cars produced in the other Eastern Bloc countries were not available in the GDR at all or only in the basic version.
This work describes all of these other cars, off-road vehicles and vans with a payload of up to one tonne that were mass-produced in the former Eastern Bloc countries of Bulgaria, Romania, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia, so that all three volumes together provide a comprehensive overview of the variety of types in the Eastern European vehicle industry.
Each type is presented with a photo, a historical description and a technical sheet.
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Author:
Uwe Bertalott
Details:
128 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm / 8.1 x 5.5 in, paperback
Illustrations:
164 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:
Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2015)
Series:
Typenkompass
ISBN:
9783613037496
Personenwagen aus Osteuropa - Was nicht in die DDR importiert wurde
The first cars were horse-drawn carriages, but that was not all. In the century after the invention of the automobile, around 10 000 manufacturers worldwide built cars, some more successfully than others. This magnificent volume presents the most beautiful and most important ones. It spans the period from the pioneering years of the early days to the mass motorization of the 1970s: car dreams of yesterday and the day before yesterday, legends from Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, the USA and other nations such as Belgium, Japan and Spain. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre - a fact-rich overview with over 130 brand portraits and 400 images.
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