Domestic category: 406 books

En 1922, Louis Heuliez, fils d'Adolphe, se spécialise dans la fabrication de charrette et met au point un procédé de caoutchoutage de roue qui connaît un vif succès. À la même époque, le moteur à explosion devient le moteur de référence, la motorisation vapeur n'est qu'un loin souvenir. Heuliez...

La Renault 4 rapidement surnommée 4L - L pour luxe ! a été produite de 1961-1992 et jouit désormais d’un statut culte. La Renault 4, inventé en 1956 par Pierre Dreyfus, qui souhaitait produire une voiture polyvalente et bon marché, à vocation mondiale, capable de répondre aux évolutions...

“The open road”—it’s a phrase that calls to mind a sense of freedom, adventure, and new possibilities that make driving one of our most liberating activities. In Drive, Iain Borden explores the way driving allows us to encounter landscapes and cities around the world. He takes particular notice...

This book examines the most popular pickup truck of all time, the Ford F-150 and its predecessor, the F-100. It provides readers with hundreds of illustrations, many in color, of the F-series pickups. In addition, there are chapters on restoring the first F-1 pickup of 1948 and the original F-100 of 1953.

The American Icons series celebrates the people, places, and objects that have informed American popular culture over the last 75 years. Illustrated throughout and replete with anecdotes, fun facts, and informative sidebars. American Icons: Corvette celebrates the vehicle that defined high-performance....

Corvette is the most coveted and longest enduring American sports car. The General Motors car, introduced in 1953, has a worldwide following and has appeared internationally in countless auto shows. My e-book looks at some of the ingenious designs such as the XP-700. This futuristic car, conceived...

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...

This exciting narrative recounts dramatically nine races which are memorable in motor history by reason of their technical importance, or the essential drama of the race described, or their impact on automobile development and design. The stories selected range from the earliest motor race of all...

Apple Pie. Baseball. Tri-Five Chevys. The iconic three-year run of arguably the most recognizable body style of all time continues to resonate with enthusiasts more than 60 years after these cars were first created. What stands out to most fans besides the styling is the vast amount of configurations...

Por qu correr? Qu es tan divertido? Cmo funciona un equipo de carreras? Desde que la rueda se invent, hasta las sofisticadas mquinas de carreras de hoy, hacemos una divertida historia y revisamos de manera entretenida el gran circo de los autos tipo frmula con la idea de atraer a nuevos fanticos.

This book provides a fascinating look at the amazing diversity of forms of travel and transport around the world today in the context of cultures, politics, economics, and environment of a place. • Provides readers with an understanding of the world's current major forms of transportation...

Founded in 1895 under the aegis of R.H. Lea, the company originally built cycles and motorcycles but, by the 1920s, was established as a manufacturer of high quality sporting cars. From the 1930s to the 1960s, Lea-Francis specialized in medium-sized cars built with care and the best quality components....

++ Includes 132 black-and-white and colour photographs ++ This is the story of Captain Marendaz, a pilot in the RFC in the Great War and his life as a manufacturer of cars in the 1920s and 1930s when he competed extensively at Brooklands and elsewhere, before moving on to designing and building aircraft....

The Electric Automobile: Its Construction, Care, and Operation is one of the first books written about electric cars, first published in 1900. The many original illustrations are included.