Automotive category: 1940 books
by Hans Pacejka, I J M Besselink
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The definitive book on tire mechanics by the acknowledged world expert
Covers everything you need to know about pneumatic tires and their impact on vehicle performance, including mathematic modeling and its practical application
Written by the acknowledged world authority on the topic and the...
Scenes from an Automotive Wonderland
Remarkable Cars Spotted in Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Gregory Cagle was a 10-year-old car fanatic when his family moved from New Jersey to Germany in 1956. For the next five years he photographed unusual, rare and sometimes bizarre automobiles throughout Europe. This book features 105 specimens of auto exotica, captured with Cagle’s Iloca Rapid-B 35mm...
my cool convertible
an inspirational guide to stylish convertibles
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This latest title in the highly successful ‘my cool’ vehicle series covers the world of open top motoring. Cruising in a convertible car with the top down started out as an American summer tradition and for many drivers around the world there is nothing better than driving down a country lane...
by Clara Marina Martinez, Dongpu Cao
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
iHorizon-Enabled Energy Management for Electrified Vehicles proposes a realistic solution that assumes only scarce information is available prior to the start of a journey and that limited computational capability can be allocated for energy management. This type of framework exploits the available...
Billy Durant
Creator of General Motors
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Praise for the first edition:
"A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America."
---Detroit Free Press
"It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is...
The Great Race
The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
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...
Thinking Small
The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
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 Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock...
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Winner of International Automotive Media Gold Award 2010 For all his fame as one of Hollywood's great actors, a world-class humanitarian, and the proprietor of a natural food empire, the late Paul Newman had another intriguing facet that was less known and perhaps closer to his heart than all the...
Lawrie Bond Microcar Man
An Illustrated History of Bond Cars
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Once a common sight on Britain's roads, few people today seem to have heard of the Bond Minicar not a diminutive, gadget laden conveyance for the fictional 007 character, but a popular, practical, motorcycle-engined, three-wheeler that in the post-war austerity period, gave tens of thousands of people...
by Brock Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2003
This first book of its kind tells the behind-the-scenes story of the incredibly illegal Cannonball rally. This best seller is now available in paperback!In the early 1970s, Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver Magazine, created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy...
Cars
Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Sources are eclectic, results mixed, but one thing is certain: car design is being forced up an ever tightening spiral of creativity. These machines are memorials of our tastes, yearnings and capabilities. They have layers of meaning and can, as Henry Ford knew, be read like a book... if only you...
by Tony Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book is not about learning how to draw and paint fashionable, super, tarted-up street or cool cars, but is about drawing and painting cars of all types and ages. The author has endeavoured to distill his many years of experience creating images on this subject into a book that will help and encourage...
by Malcolm Bobbitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
British commercial vehicle manufacturers played a key role in bolstering Britain's economy throughout the 1950s, especially during the period of postwar austerity, a time when they contributed to the all-important export drive. British lorries were, therefore, seen as the workhorses of the world and...
by Brock Yates
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2004
Like any giant enterprise, the NASCAR we see today is very different from the regional race series launched by a visionary Bill France in the late 1940s. Few writers are as intimately aware of that history as Car and Driver's Brock Yates. In the 1950s he recalls the intimate nature of the sport's...