The Great Book of Automobiles
Author : Michael Bowler
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Automobile racing
ISBN : 9788854001084
Author : Michael Bowler
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Automobile racing
ISBN : 9788854001084
Author : Dan Neil
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614280150
It is the dream of many to own the world’s most beautifully designed automobiles, but most often only a handful of collectors ever come close. Now, The Impossible Collection of Cars makes that dream come true, showcasing the one hundred most exceptional cars of the twentieth century in ASSOULINE's third volume in the Impossible Collection series. Each luxury automobile—from the 1909 Blitzen Benz to a 1996 McLaren F1—was chosen for its revolutionary engineering, magnificent lines, and head-turning capabilities. Assouline is pleased to announce this exquisite tome, which features cars owned by celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Ralph Lauren, Greta Garbo, Pablo Picasso, and Elvis Presley. This Impossible Collection volume is presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate.
Author : Dean Batchelor
Publisher : Ashley Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 9780881764192
Author : Ken W. Purdy
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Automobile racing
ISBN :
Author : Russell Hayes
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0760370621
The Big Book of Tiny Cars presents entertaining profiles of automotive history’s most famous—and infamous—microcars and subcompacts from 1901 to today. Illustrated with photos and period ads.
Author : Levi Tillemann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1476773505
The Great Race recounts the exciting story of a century-long battle among automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance—and the thrilling race to build the car of the future. The world’s great manufacturing juggernaut—the $3 trillion automotive industry—is in the throes of a revolution. Its future will include cars Henry Ford and Karl Benz could scarcely imagine. They will drive themselves, won’t consume oil, and will come in radical shapes and sizes. But the path to that future is fraught. The top contenders are two traditional manufacturing giants, the US and Japan, and a newcomer, China. Team America has a powerful and little-known weapon in its arsenal: a small group of technology buffs and regulators from California. The story of why and how these men and women could shape the future—how you move, how you work, how you live on Earth—is an unexpected tale filled with unforgettable characters: a scorned chemistry professor, a South African visionary who went for broke, an ambitious Chinese ex-pat, a quixotic Japanese nuclear engineer, and a string of billion-dollar wagers by governments and corporations. “To explain the scramble for the next-generation auto—and the roles played in that race by governments, auto makers, venture capitalists, environmentalists, and private inventors—comes Levi Tillemann’s The Great Race…Mr. Tillemann seems ideally cast to guide us through the big ideas percolating in the world’s far-flung workshops and labs” (The Wall Street Journal). His account is incisive and riveting, explaining how America bounced back in this global contest and what it will take to command the industrial future.
Author : Michael Bowler
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antique and classic cars
ISBN : 9788880959830
Author : Paul Ingrassia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1476737479
In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors. Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.
Author : Elizabeth Janeway
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Automobiles
ISBN :
Traces the development of the automobile.
Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 9781780974095
In 1914, the first cars rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line, and life changed forever. A century later--and 225 years after the first auto patent granted in the US--it's time for a complete view of the vehicle that created modern life. Jonathan Glancey, a leading authority on popular culture and design, provides a snapshot history of the automobile-not just the makes and models, but its role in politics, family life, war, advertising, architecture, film, and television.