Minneapolis: Motorbooks, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN: 076034020X. Convertibles (in the First Gear series) is a celebration of the classic drop-top, from the earliest of coach cars where convertible style was the norm, to the high-end sports cars of today. Today’s convertible is a metaphor for freedom on the open road. To drop the top and feel the wind and sun and to be able to cover...
Minneapolis: Motorbooks, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN: 076034020X. Convertibles (in the First Gear series) is a celebration of the classic drop-top, from the earliest of coach cars where convertible style was the norm, to the high-end sports cars of today. Today’s convertible is a metaphor for freedom on the open road. To drop the top and feel the wind and sun and to be able to cover...
Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, 2011. — 117 p. — ISBN: 9781840915853. Fifty Cars That Changed the World focuses on the modern era's most important mode of transportation: the automobile. From the 1908 Ford Model T, through mid-century masterpieces like the 1957 Lotus Elite, to the 1998 Smart Car, the fifty entries explore each car's iconic status in design history. Ford Model T...
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2010. 210 p. — ISBN: 3834807974 Die Automobilindustrie befindet sich in einem stärkeren Wandel als je zuvor. Ressourcen werden knapp und der CO2-Ausstoß kann zu dramatischen Klimaveränderungen führen. Der Nachfrageboom droht in der aktuellen weltweiten Finanzkrise auch das Verhalten der Autokäufer zu beeinflussen. Diesen aktuellen Wandel der letzten 20...
Igloo Books Ltd, 2007. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84561-253-5. The muscle car recile is a simple one. Take a compact automobile and install an incredibly powerful engine to deliver a tire-frying performance. No auto enthusiast can argue with that one. It`s a formula for success that has been tried and tested for 50 years and has created some of the most exciting cars in history.
Motorbooks, 2013. — 223 p. — ISBN: 978-0-76034-415-6. The rarity and historical significance of prewar classic and antique cars make them hot commodities on the collector car market. These are the automobiles that populate the fairways and manicured lawns of the world’s greatest car shows in alluring locales like Pebble Beach, California, and Amelia Island, Florida. These are...
New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2010. — 36 p. Introduces the Prius, including information on its parts, technology, efficiency, and how it has changed over the years.
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co, 1919. — 345 p. A Complete Manual of Practical Information for Owners and Drivers of Automobiles, Operators of Gas and Oil Engines and Farm Tractors with Chapters on Electric Light and Water Supply Systems for Farm Homes. Acetylene. The gas acetylene, as used for lighting on automobiles, is produced from cacium carbide by the action of water....
Ian Allan, 2010. - 130 p. "Buses Yearbook" is the annual publication linked to the monthly magazine "Buses"; it has been published annually in various guises since the early 1960s and has become one of the fixed points in the enthusiast calendar. The book includes a varied mix of articles and photo-features, both historic and contemporary, covering a wide range of subjects of...
Pen & Sword Transport, 2018. — 202 p. — ISBN: 978-1-526701-51-0. This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were...
Crowood Press Ltd, Ramsbury, Marlborough, 2013. 274 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84797-571-3. One hundred years ago electric cars were the most popular automobiles in the world. In the late nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth century, they outsold every other type of car. And yet, within a couple of decades of the start of the twentieth century, the electric car had...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing (DK), 2011. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7566-7167-9. Printed and bound in China by Leo Paper Products. Tracing the history of the automobile, from the first prototypes to the super cars of today, Car covers the technological developments and manufacture of cars, the cultural backdrop against which the various models arose, and the enduring impact the...
Motorbooks, 2019. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0760363997. The first two-door Mini, introduced in 1959 and built until 2000, revolutionized automotive design with its innovative front-wheel-drive layout that made the car appear bigger on the inside than the outside. In 1999, the Mini was voted the second most influential car of the 20th century, behind the Ford Model T. Designed for...
Dorling Kindersley, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-1465453396. A visual guide to the most iconic classic cars of every decade from the 1940s to the 1980s, featuring more than 1,300 photographs and two prints suitable for framing. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution. From the Aston Martin DB5 to the Chevrolet Corvette, Classic Car is packed with the marques and...
Minneapolis: Motorbooks, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0760340585. Ferrari has been producing race and road cars for more than 60 years. In the distinctive Ferrari Red, legendary cars with names like Monza, Testa Rossa, and Daytona turn heads from Monaco to Japan and around the world. In Ferrari, 60 milestone vehicles from across the company’s history are profiled in detail, with...
Open Road Integrated Media, 2012. 835 p. — 978-1-4532-8610-4. Told with panoramic detail and gripping insight, The Reckoning is the inside story of automakers Ford and Nissan — and the collapse of America's industrial supremacy. After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the...
New York: Random House, Inc., 2012. 370 p. — ISBN: 978-0-345-52142-2 (hardcover), eISBN: 978-0-345-52144-6. Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of...
1st edition. — London: Blandford Press, 1973. — 235 p. — ISBN: 0713706279. A pictorial history of fire-fighting equipment and methods in all parts of the world. Fire Engines in Color will be much in demand, not only among firemen and firefighting buffs, but among readers of all ages who have a taste for beautifully illustrated technical-historical books. Colour Plates...
Dennis Publishing / Octane Media / MagBook, 2009. — 260 p. — (Great British Marques). Classic, sophisticated and sleek, the Aston Martin is a car that needs little introduction. Since its debut appearance on the motoring scene the Aston Martin's exquisite craftsmanship and reliability has earned its place as one of Britain's most revered and desirable brands. This Magbook...
Ian Allan, 2008. — 180 p. — (Racing Colours) — ISBN: 978-1-7110-3611-6. Ferrari is the quintessential bearer of Rosso Corsa, Italian Racing Red, in the 21st Century. Rightly so, because Ferrari Grand Prix cars have represented Italy in Formula 1 racing since the World Championship was established in 1950. But as Karl Ludvigsen explains, there is much more to Rosso Corsa than...
Oxford. New York 2001. — 249 p. The essays included in Daniel Miller's edited collection Car Cultures do exactly what is promised in the introductory chapter. Having sketched out the many ways in which the cultures of the car remain to be examined and dissected, Miller explains that the volume is designed to give a sense of what is missing. To say that it achieves this aim is...
London: Atlantic Books, 2013. — 359 p. — ISBN: 9781848877054. "In this book Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s - as little more than a powered quadricycle - via the early pioneer...
London: Atlantic Books, 2013. — 359 p. — ISBN: 9781848877054. "In this book Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s - as little more than a powered quadricycle - via the early pioneer...
Warsawa: Sport i Turystyka, 1981. — 210 s. Niniejsza publikacja nie moze przedstawic w wyczerpujacy sposob dziejow samochodu, poniewaz byly one wprost niewiarygodnie wielostronne. Jest ona tylko krotkim przegladem przeszlosci wybranych pojazdow, ktore dzisiaj z szacunkiem nazywamy weteranami, chociaz wiele z nich sluzy niezawodnie do dzis.
Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York, 2012. XIV, 379S. 276 Abb. — ISBN: 978-3-642-20302-2, ISBN: 978-3-642-20303-9 (ebook). Die „Kammsche Regel zur Verbesserung der Richtungsstabilität oder das K-Heck, das sich in der Form vieler moderner Pkws verbirgt – diese und viele andere innovativen Konzepte gehen auf Professor Kamm (1893 – 1966) zurück, den Begründer der...
Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013. — X, 406 p. — ISBN 978-0- 674- 05091- 4 (alk. paper). At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile-the Volkswagen Beetle-was one of the most beloved in the world....
Chapel Hill (North Carolina, USA): The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — VIII, 240 p. — ISBN: 0-8078-2892-0. Locomobiles and Model T’s. Tudores and Fordores. Buses and Trolleys. 1957 Chevys. Che’s Chevy and Fidel’s Olds.
1. Auflage. — Vieweg+Teubner, GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2009. 268 p. — ISBN: 978-3-8348-0962-9. Neue Perspektiven zur Frühgeschichte des Automobils und seiner Technik Wann und von wem wurde das Automobil erfunden? Wir glauben es zu wissen, doch vieles aus der Zeit vor 1900 blieb unbekannt und unerschlossen. Reinhard Seiffert nimmt das lange unterschätzte Wirken Gottlieb...
Cornall University, 2008. XIV, 309 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8014-4638-2. The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and...
Golden Press, 1961. — 260 p. A nice large hard cover book loaded with photos of cars, written by an expert in the field Ralph Stein. A 200 year story of the motor car, with photos and illustrations on every page. 72 full-color pages include special portraits of the finest cars ever built. From the fire chariots, steamers and electric cars, early races and rallies, Grand...
New York: Sports of The Times, 1905. — 211 p. ''Do voii know when the first automobile was run?" The question started me to investigate and the result in the following pages is a little story of the automobile. When retrospective views of past centuries are indulged, it usually leads the thinking mortal by the process of antithesis, to make predictions for the greater...
Bloomsbury Shire Publications, 2017. — 51 p. Rolls-Royce is one of Britain's legendary car brands, representing the pinnacle of engineering quality and luxury like no other manufacturer. Since 1904, when Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce began their collaboration, the Rolls-Royce name has earned respect and admiration the world over. This is the full story of...
Ian Allan, 2008. — 176 p. — (Racing Colours) - ISBN: 978-0-7111-33322-0. The great cars, drivers and races from the top motor-sporting nations form the theme of this spectacular new series of magnificently illustrated volumes. Each country boasts its bloodlines, companies, engineers, executives and enthusiasts whose powerful competitive spirit and dauntless courage drives them...
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