Automotive category: 1940 books
Road to Power
How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Follow a pioneer's journey from factory floor to CEO
Road to Power is the story of how Mary Barra drove herself to the pinnacle of a company that steers the nation's wealth. Beginning as a rare female electrical engineer and daughter of a General Motors die maker, Barra spent more than thirty...
Hot Rod Empire
Robert E. Petersen and the Creation of the World's Most Popular Car and Motorcycle Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
†‹Hot Rod Empire details Robert E. Petersen's creation of Hot Rod Magazine in the 1940s and the Petersen Publishing empire that grew to the mainstream juggernaut we know today.
The end of World War II marked the release of pent-up war-years energy and the desire to live. For many this meant...
by Terry Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
For nearly forty years he has ruthlessly exploited and dominated Formula One motor racing, and now he is setting his sights further afield...This is the true story of Bernie Ecclestone, the street-smart, working-class kid who masterminded the transformation of Formula One from an amateur sport of...
by Tony Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
From growing up in a wooden caravan to building his own state-of-the-art racetrack, this is the remarkable story of Targa champion, Hampton Downs and Highlands Motorsport Park owner Tony Quinn. On a clear and frosty morning in 2012, in the small, Central Otago town of Cromwell, Tony Quinn and his...
As I Was Saying . . .
The World According to Clarkson Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
As I Was Saying... is the seventh book in Jeremy Clarkson's best-selling The World According to Clarkson series.
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Crikey, the world according to Clarkson's been a funny old place of late . . .
For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but,...
Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All
Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway,...
The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2003
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.
In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely...
by Tosh Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Find financial freedom as a freight broker
The growing freight brokerage field could be the ticket to your dreams if you want a lucrative work-from-home business offering:
Minimum educational requirements
Minimum start-up requirements
The chance to set your own hours
The chance to make...
Not Ready To Buy? ... Lease A Car Instead!
A Consumer Guide On Car Leasing With A Complete Overview On How To Lease A Car So You Can Calculate Car Lease Payments And Weigh Out Options On Leasing vs. Buying To Get The Best Car Lease Deals On The Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Which is better, to buy a new car or to lease one? Most consumers will think that the concept of car leasing is the same as that of apartment leasing. So, of course, they will assume that buying a car is the better deal. Car leasing is not the same as car renting. The most concise way to explain...
by Eileen Sandlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Are you looking to open a business that offers an endless stream of repeat customers, has a flexible work schedule, and allows you to make as much money as you are willing to put into it? If the answer is yes, then perhaps the car detailing business is for you. The average price for a complete car...
Door to Door
The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make.
Transportation...
The People's Tycoon
Henry Ford and the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off...
Where the Suckers Moon
The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"For all the right reasons." "Cars that can." "What to Drive." "The perfect Car for an Imperfect World." Only one of these slogans would be chosen by Subaru of America to sell its cars in the recession year of 1991.
As six advertising agencies scrambled...
Me and My MG
Stories from MG Owners Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports, and the seven year old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, who read a book called The Red Car and knew that, one day, he would have to have a TC, and the Dutch boy who saw an MGB...