A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britains cities after World War Two and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen ... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey down the fast lane. Ben Collins, bestselling author of The Man In The White Suit and How To DriveA wonderful glimpse "backstage" at ......

An illustrated celebration of the great classic convertible cars from motoring history - all the great marques from six different countries of production. More then 1,000 colour photographs show the details of the cars design and their interiors, alongside a text providing specifications and engine details.

How did horsepower and speed get so out of control? Do young people still like cars? Who are the automotive icons that will shape car culture for years to come?

Slow Car Fast: The Millennial Mantra Changing Car Culture For Good offers answers to the questions on the mind of every kid who grew up with a poster on their wall and dreamed ......

The 67th edition of this annual, formally known as "Automobile Year" is again only available with french texts. The content of this book has remained faithful to the formula created in 1953. The first part gives an economic summing up of the major markets and analyses the world situation. All the years newcomers are described: those that went ......

The 47th season of the World Rally Championship started with a bang at Rallye Monte Carlo, but after a back and forth battle through the season Ott Tänak became the first Estonian to take the WRC laurels.

Rally Chile made its debut on the 2019 WRC calendar and proved to be a fast and challenging round, with Thierry ......

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society, and the ways we might preserve and conserve it. Drawing on contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and comprising six sections, this volume carries the heritage discourse forward by exploring the ......

Did you know that the first remains of a wheeled vehicle were found in a Royal Tomb in Mesopotamia, or that windscreen wipers were invented by a lady passenger travelling on an American street car? Or the fact that many important concepts in bearing design emerged during the Greek and Roman periods (900-400 BC). A thousand years later Leonardo ......

The 47th season of the World Rally Championship started with a bang at Rallye Monte Carlo, but after a back and forth battle through the season Ott Tänak became the first Estonian to take the WRC laurels.

Rally Chile made its debut on the 2019 WRC calendar and proved to be a fast and challenging round, with Thierry ......

Petrol stations have been with us for 100 years. They have become etched on countless rural and industrial landscapes, sometimes blending in with their surroundings, and often becoming a linchpin of the communities they serve. Men, or women, often clad in slightly oily overalls, would fill up your cars tank, wipe the windscreen and even check ......

Between the 1930s and 1980s, American automotive design reached new heights, quietly staking out a place as an art form in its own right. This innovative period saw the birth of concept cars whose appeal lay not so much with the power of their engines or the luxury of their added features, but in the sheer beauty and novelty of their overall ......

Although it was a 1-2 victory of the undoubted favourites from Toyota, the Le Mans 24H 2019 was everything but un unexciting race and had all the usual drama. One even happened to the Toyota #7, which was in the lead an hour from the finish, but had to pit twice with a slow puncture and thus lost the win to the sister car.

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Hit the road and escape for a little while. With the best drives of the USA, Italy, Japan and more, this selection will take you around the world in style. From scenic country roads lined with picturesque meadows to switchback mountain routes that will get your heart racing, and featuring breathtaking scenery and advice for tourists, this book ......

Danny "The Count" Koker is a Las Vegas legend who acquires, restores and customises classic cars and motorcycles – and then flips them for a profit. Well known from his frequent appearances on Pawn Stars, Danny walks, talks and breathes American muscle cars and motorcycles, from vintage Thunderbirds and classic Corvettes to souped-up Harleys ......

Undeniably one of the most influential innovations of the modern world, the car has revolutionized manufacturing and transformed how we move, forever changing our landscapes, cities, environments and economies. With each revolution, each transformation, have come almost unmatched impacts upon wider culture, changing not only the way we live, ......

What was the very first real `automobile? And what actually constitutes an automobile, anyway? Such questions are not easy to answer but Keith Ray has embraced the challenge and compiled a myth-busting book packed with fascinating facts. Ranging from the `firsts in motoring technology, including the disc brake, fuel injection and four-wheel ......