History Of Motor Car

Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466836237
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Automobile written by Steven Parissien and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car. The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. Readers learn the grand and turbulent history of the motor car, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s—as little more than a powered quadricycle—and the innovations of the early pioneer carmakers. The author examines the advances of the interwar era, the Golden Age of the 1950s, and the iconic years of the 1960s to the decades of doubt and uncertainty following the oil crisis of 1973, the global mergers of the 1990s, the bailouts of the early twenty-first century, and the emergence of the electric car. This is not just a story of horsepower and performance but a tale of extraordinary people: of intuitive carmakers such as Karl Benz, Sir Henry Royce, Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat), André Citroën, and Louis Renault; of exceptionally gifted designers such as the eccentric, Ohio-born Chris Bangle (BMW); and of visionary industrialists such as Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche (the Volkswagen Beetle), and Gene Bordinat (the Ford Mustang), among numerous other game changers. Above all, this comprehensive history demonstrates how the epic story of the car mirrors the history of the modern era, from the brave hopes and soaring ambitions of the early twentieth century to the cynicism and ecological concerns of a century later. Bringing to life the flamboyant entrepreneurs, shrewd businessmen, and gifted engineers that worked behind the scenes to bring us horsepower and performance, The Life of the Automobile is a globe-spanning account of the auto industry that is sure to rev the engines of entrepreneurs and gearheads alike.

Author : Marco Matteucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Motor Car written by Marco Matteucci and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the whole story of the car from the first hesitant experiments with steam and wind-driven machines right through to the stream-lined super-cars of today.

Author : Beverly Rae Kimes
Publisher : Automobile Quarterly Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780971146815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Packard written by Beverly Rae Kimes and published by Automobile Quarterly Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the legendary Packard could command a book of such scope and expense. This monumental work has required ten years of research, documentation and photography. It represents many more decades of collecting Packard automobiles, facts, photographs, technical data and information to record for all time every aspect, every model, every achievement of the Packard motor car and the men who made its name an emblem and international byword for taste and refinement in automotive design and engineering. Over three years were spent in intensive writing, checking, cross-checking, rewriting, coordinating, editing, and winnowing thousands of rare and unpublished historic photographs. This volume represents the scholarly efforts of sixteen contributors and was written by ten highly qualified authorities on Packard lore.Winner of a Cugnot Award.

Author : L. J. K. Setright
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drive On! written by L. J. K. Setright and published by Granta Books (Uk). This book was released on 2003 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most stimulating, informative, provocative and witty books on the motor car ever written.

Author : Herbert Lee Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story of the Automobile written by Herbert Lee Barber and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elliot Kruszynski
Publisher : Professor Wooford McPaw's Hist
ISBN 13 : 9781908714954
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professor Wooford Mcpaw's History of Cars written by Elliot Kruszynski and published by Professor Wooford McPaw's Hist. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of books by Elliot Kruszynski, exploring the histories of modern technologies.

Author : Roger B. Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motor-Car Principles, the Gasoline Automobile written by Roger B. Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hodder General Publishing Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450005763
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Motor Car written by Hodder General Publishing Division and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marco Matteucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780706402353
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Motor Car written by Marco Matteucci and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429945397
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yugo written by Jason Vuic and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand "good" communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.