Book Reviews
Reviews of the latest media that interest motoring enthusiasts.
American Car Design Now
Car design is a complex art that involves a lot more than just putting pen to paper or mouse to pad. American Car Design Now by C. Edson Armi gives us an inside look at the process through the words and techniques of top designers from Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler. The book explores not just style and shapes, but how designers approach the… Read More
Automotive Atrocities!: The Cars We Love to Hate
Many of us cannot define art or obscenity, but we know it when we see it. Author Eric Peters, however, knows an ugly car when he sees one, and can tell you exactly why. His new book Automotive Atrocities!: The Cars We Love to Hate, is a clever, sometimes cutting, look at some of the worst cars ever to soil the world's roads. Now, some may take exception, but few… Read More
Professional Cars: Ambulances, Hearses and Flower Cars
Collecting the cars of hospitals and funeral homes is a pretty specialized field, but as Gregg Merksamer show us in Professional Cars: Ambulances, Hearses and Flower Cars, this little known segment of the collector car hobby is filled with fascinating design work and very specialized engineering. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos, it's a… Read More
Ford GT: The Legend Comes to Life
Few of us will ever own the Ford GT super car, but we can all get an inside look at its history and development in Ford GT: The Legend Comes to Life. Author Larry Edsall takes us step by step through the design and construction of the GT, starting with a short history of its almost unbeatable ancestor, the original GT 40. With a forward by the legendary Carroll… Read More
Ferrari Formula 1
If you're certified gearhead, then Ferrari Formula 1 by Peter Wright is the book for you. It's an incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes technical analysis of Ferrari's championship winning F1-2000 Formula 1 race car. Granted unprecedented access to the normally secret world of Ferrari engineering and design, Mr. Wright shows us the real nuts, bolts and software of… Read More
Soul on Bikes
In today's Harley-happy America, biker books are a dime a dozen, and most are pretty much the same, except, that is, for Soul on Bikes by Tobie Gene Levingston and co-authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman. It's the story of the East Bay Dragons, one of California's oldest and best known African-American motorcycle clubs and the vibrant black biker culture that they… Read More
Ferrari Prototype Era
The sports car era of the '60s and '70s was one of the most exciting in auto racing history, and many of the most exciting cars involved came from Ferrari. In Ferrari Prototype Era 1962-1973 in Photographs, renowned automotive journalist, Alan Henry, truly captures these exquisite race cars and their time of greatest glory. It's primarily a superb photo book, but… Read More