Giles Chapman - Böcker

JaguarCentury chronicles one of the auto industrys most revered car brands, from the Jaguar SS sporting saloon to todays F-Type sports cars, F-PACE SUV, and X-Type sedansfilled with images, history, and in-depth analyses of the incredible cars cre...

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A stunning visual celebration of cars over a century of progress! Introducing The Story of the Car - a historical and visual exploration of awe-inspiring automobiles over a period of one hundred years, from the first horseless carriage to driverle...

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The Jaguar name is synonymous with style, power, performance, luxury and an intangible element of Britishness. Its hard to imagine its humble origins in a Blackpool backstreet as the Swallow Sidecar Company. Jaguar Cars was formed in 1945, and the...

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Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969, GT cars had tended to be expensive, temperamental, impractical and rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldnt look stunning and go like a rocket (with the right engine) yet be ...

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After the Second World War, cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Most new models had to go for export or were reserved for those drivers who needed them the most, such as doctors. Petrol was still rationed, roads inadequate and modern techno...

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The ultimate guide through motoring history Slip off the handbrake and take a spin through the history of motoring - from the first horseless carriages to the rush of modern-day motor sport. Find out everything you need to know about motoring from...

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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 c...

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A stunning visual celebration of cars over a century of progress!Introducing The Story of the Car - a historical and visual exploration of awe-inspiring automobiles over a period of one hundred years, from the first horseless carriage to driverles...

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From the Chevrolet Bel Air to the Ferrari Testarossa, this stunning book showcases the most iconic and important classic cars from every decade since the 1940s. Few things ignite such reverence as a classic car. With more than 250 iconic models fr...

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Good old Dad and his good old Dad's car. As solid and dependable as the man himself, if a little less balding, Dad's car was almost a member of the family, whisking you to exciting days out, or just to visit boring relatives in distant p...

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Every weekend, throughout the year, an enormous number of British people flock to Car Boot Sales. At any one event, hundreds of them are selling off unwanted possessions or inherited junk to free up space at home and raise useful extra money. But ...

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Every weekend, throughout the year, an enormous number of British people flock to Car Boot Sales. At any one event, hundreds of them are selling off unwanted possessions or inherited junk to free up space at home and raise useful extra money. But ...

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They don't make 'bad' cars any more, right? Well, maybe not, but there have been some real clunkers in years gone by, and this is the first book to celebrate them in all their awful glory. In this new edition, Giles Chapman presents to you "T...

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It was brash and it was loud the 1980s put paid to the glumness of the 70s and nowhere was that more obvious than in the cars we drove, which took a quantum leap in durability, performance, equipment and style. They had to: Japanese quality and Eu...

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Its easy to forget that the original Range Rover, launched in 1970, created the luxury sport-utility vehicle market from scratch. A marvel of British ingenuity developed on a shoestring budget, it was the first four-wheel drive car that was as hap...

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The 1980s car era had been brash and loud but the 1990s that followed was markedly more sober, stylish and sophisticated. A period when safety and durability improved . . . even though insurance hikes, speed cameras and the introduction of the sep...

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The original Land Rover evolved for almost seventy years, from the ground breaking Series I model in 1948 to the final Defender in 2016. Now there is a totally new Defender for the 2020s. Land Rover charts the history of the authentic bloodline in...

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Cars on Film celebrates the car at the movies through a unique and eclectic collection of rare stills. Cars have been an integral aspect of on-screen storytelling ever since the earliest cameras first rolled, highlighting suspense or humour as the...

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For fifty years, Britain made the best toy cars in the world, expertly shrinking every kind of reallife vehicle and producing them in their countless, die-cast millions. Dinky Toys were the 1930s pioneers, then in the 1950s came the pocket-money M...

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Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: theyre all forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics. In Lost Cars of the 1970s, the casualties and sideshows of motoring history from a...

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Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: theyre all forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics. Motoring in the 1940s and 50s spanned from post-war austerity to the youve-never-h...

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From Ace to Zodiac - via the world-beating Land Rover, the thrilling Morgan Aeromax, the eternally young Mini Cooper and the unique London taxi - this is a celebration of the best British cars, old and new, in all their glorious diversity. Don&apo...

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What Europe needed after the Second World War was an ultra-reliable workhorse to get small businesses on the move again. And, with a little nudge from the Dutch, thats what Volkswagen provided in 1950 with its Transporter van. It was no fireball, ...

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Very few cars inspire as much affection as the original Mini. Its the small car everyone loves to eulogise because it oozes energetic fun, classless minimalism and evergreen style. But it's also of massive historical importance: the 1959 Mini...

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Very few cars inspire as much affection as the original Mini. Its the small car everyone loves to eulogise because it oozes energetic fun, classless minimalism and evergreen style. But it's also of massive historical importance: the 1959 Mini...

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White Van Man is a larger-than-life presence on Britains road, but hes no fool. Given the choice, he inevitably opts for a Ford Transit... and indeed he has been doing so, more than for any other van, for the past 45-plus years. Why? Because the T...

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The KdF car, a German acronym for Strength Through Joy, was conceived by Adolf Hitlers Third Reich as a true German peoples car. There is precious little in the legacy of 1930s Nazi Germany that is positive, but after the Second World war and with...

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The very first Land Rover, launched in 1948, owed its low-key existence to shoestring British ingenuity and literally odds and ends left over from World War II. Rover thought it could keep its factory ticking over as the companys post-war fortunes...

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If you owned a car in 1960s Britain, then youll love this blast back in time to when driving was still fun, highway speed limits were unheard-of (well, until 1965 anyway), and buying a new car was a thrilling family event. It was a golden period f...

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The 1970s saw some ground-breaking new metal in British showrooms: the Renault 5 established the new supermini class, the Volkswagen Golf gave the average family car a hatchback and top quality, the Ford Capri made sporty cars available to everyon...

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