Motoring the Future

Motoring the Future
Author: Engelbert Wimmer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230307817

The crisis in the auto industry has resulted in a race between Volkswagen, as challenger, and Toyota, as tattered global market leader. Whether it is theGerman or theJapanese firm that takes pole position, the winner will change the balance of power in the automotive industry and lead the way to the automobiles of the future.

Vauxhall/Opel Corsa

Vauxhall/Opel Corsa
Author: John S. Mead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010
Genre: Opel automobile
ISBN: 9781844258864

Hatchback & Corsavan. Does NOT cover Combo van. Petrol: 1.0 litre (998cc) 3-cyl and 1.2 litre (1229cc) & 1.4 litre (1364cc) 4-cyl. Does NOT cover 1.6 litre. Turbo-Diesel: 1.3 litre (1248cc) CDTi. Does NOT cover 1.7 litre.

The Classic Car Book

The Classic Car Book
Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0241428807

From the Chevrolet Bel Air to the Ferrari Testarossa, this book takes you on a scenic drive through the history of classic cars, exploring their status as objects of luxury and desire. The Classic Car Book showcases the most important and iconic classic cars from every decade since the 1940s, with a foreword by award-winning writer and commentator on the industry, history, and culture of cars and motoring, Giles Chapman. Fully illustrated and packed with stunning photography, The Classic Car Book uses specially commissioned photographic tours to put you in the driver's seat of the world's most famous and celebrated cars, including stylish roadsters and luxury limousines from manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Rover, Jaguar, and Bentley. The Classic Car Book is ideal for any car collectors and enthusiasts.

American Military Vehicles of World War I

American Military Vehicles of World War I
Author: Albert Mroz
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786454768

In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufacturing capabilities and abundant natural resources combined with increased standardization and mass production to enable the industry to meet the military's needs. Motor vehicles and aircraft were quickly cemented as the most influential military tools of the early twentieth century. This book both describes the development and use of a wide range of specialized motor vehicles during World War I and analyzes how their advent indelibly altered modern warfare and transportation.

Opel

Opel
Author: Karl E. Ludvigsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1975
Genre: Opel automobile
ISBN:

Brave New Car

Brave New Car
Author: Karl Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006461194

The best years of the automobile lie before us. But it will be a new kind of car and a new kind of automotive experience. There will be a new powertrain dominating the motoring world. Driving will gradually be ceded to the on-board electronics, and, in response, interiors will become more luxurious and sociable. The car will connect with other cars, and infrastructure, a community and ecology of mobility.Brave New Car outlines the possibilities, and opportunities, that lie before us.A premium quality book for the professional, student, and enthusiast alike, Brave New Car is sure to challenge and inspire new thinking in the automotive world and beyond.

A-Z of Cars of the '80s

A-Z of Cars of the '80s
Author: Martin Lewis
Publisher: Bay View Books
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1998-05-18
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781901432107

Now available in paperback! Lewis captures the wide variety of famous and obscure British car makers in this unique encyclopedic collection. Brief histories plus descriptions, specs, performance figures, production numbers and dates, and photographs combine to deliver this classic look at the variety of British-manufactured cars of the 1980s. Contains production numbers and dates, specs, body types, and historical notes on all makes.