Domestic category: 406 books
The Camper Book
A Celebration of a Moveable American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Camper Book will captivate all those who dream of waving good-bye to the rat race from the window of their own moveable home, be it a camper, RV, travel trailer, camper van, or tiny camper. Not just for placid retirees anymore, camper culture has sprung up among simplicity-seeking millennials,...
by John Heitmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. It details cars’ inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the wealthy; racing and the promotion of the industry;...
by Don Southerton
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In the wake of the recent accomplishments of the Hyundai Motor Group and respectively the Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors brands a question is often raised, “What makes Hyundai so successful?”I tackle this question from a cultural perspective, leaving aspects of such as sustainable production...
Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend
The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
When Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were assassinated in their driveway in the pre-dawn hours of March 16, 1988, the salacious details of the crime and the years of legal wrangling that followed made for hundreds of splashy headlines and sexy television soundbytes. After all, the story had it...
A Most Deliberate Swindle
How Edwardian fraudsters pulled the plug on the electric bus and left our cities gasping for breath
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus.This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting...
Car Crazy
The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In Car Wars, G. Wayne Miller, author of Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them and Men and Speed: A Wild Ride through NASCAR's Breakout Season, takes readers back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era-from 1893, when the first U.S.-built...
Automotive giants of America
Men who made our Motor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1926): Curiosly, although our automobile industry is young, its leaders are not young men. Every one of the twenty is self-made. No other industry in this country or anywhere else in the world ever enjoyed such growth or accomplished so much in the brief space of twenty-five...
How Toyota Became #1
Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Everyone knows that Toyota has had an amazing twenty-five- year run, rising from a humble Japanese start-up to a thriving global giant. But how did it pass Ford and GM to become the world?s largest auto manufacturer? And how does it continue to thrive while so many competitors are struggling and failing?
Journalist...
Jewels in the Crown
How Tata of India Transformed Britain's Jaguar and Land Rover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Jewels in the Crown provides an analysis of Tata’s acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008, and subsequent transformation of their fortunes, written by an award-winning motoring writer. Ray Hutton goes behind the scenes to examine how Tata have not only returned the business to profit, but...
The Yugo
The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
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...
Storied Independent Automakers
Nash, Hudson, and American Motors
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
With roots extending back to the first decade of the twentieth century, Nash Motor Company and the Hudson Motor Car Company managed to compete and even prosper as independent producers until they merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Company, which itself remained independent until it was bought...
Asphalt Nation
How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back.
The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal...
Mercedes-Benz 300SL W198 with chassis number/data card explanation
From the 300SL Gullwing to the Roadster
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Interested in the Mercedes-Benz 300SL? Then you will like to read this 250-page guide. It shows you the car's history and explains chassis number and data card. It also comes with superb recent non-Daimler AG color photos, including pictures of the suspension. These are some of the topics covered:
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by Car and Driver
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Chevrolet Corvette is a treasured American icon and one of the world’s most popular sports cars. The experts at Car and Driver, who have tested nearly every version of this sleek machine, have now compiled and curated over 50 years of articles, reviews, and news about the Corvette, from the...