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Languages : en
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100 Cars Britain Can be Proud of
Author: Giles ChapmanCars We Loved in the 1980s
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750980648
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
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 European design were luring away ever more customers. Features such as fuel injection, turbochargers, computer-controlled systems and four-wheel drive became commonplace. This was also the decade that brought us the people-carrier and the off-roader, new classes of car that radically reshaped family transport. Meanwhile, seatbelt-wearing became law, the M25 opened, speed cameras appeared and ram-raiding was the new motoring nemesis. Relive everything car-related in Britain in the 1980s with Giles Chapman.
Cars We Loved in the 1950s
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: Cars We Loved
ISBN: 9780750961004
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After the Second World War, new cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Petrol was rationed, roads inadequate, and modern technology lacking. At the start of the 1950s, Morris, Austin and Ford put increasing numbers of British families on four wheels, while new sports cars from MG, Jaguar, Triumph and Austin-Healey promised motoring excitement. Giles Chapman investigates the fascinating motoring decade of the 1950s.
The Reliant Robin
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750967594
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
MOTOR CARS: GENERAL INTEREST. Spanning four decades, the Reliant Robin was a familiar, if eccentric, fixture on Britain's roads; an object of amusement to those who didn't understand its ultra-thrifty ways and a source of pride to the many thousands of owners who did. During a time of deep recession in 1970s Britain, this stylish little car from Tamworth became a massive hit, boasting low fuel consumption and cheap tax. Reliant couldn't make them fast enough, until a culture of more sophisticated car buyers saw it go into eventual decline. From its beginnings in 1973 to its demise almost thirty years later, Giles Chapman traces the colourful history of the most famous and iconic three-wheeled car in Britain.
The Range Rover Story
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: Story of
ISBN: 9780750989237
Category : Land-Rover trucks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The exciting story of the enormously successful Range Rover, the ultimate must-have SUV
Cars We Loved in the 1990s
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: Cars We Loved
ISBN: 9780750993180
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Everyone's favourite cars of the 1990s in this lavishly illustrated little book
Cars on Film
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750994002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Celebrating the cars that took starring roles cars at the movies
Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781803995496
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
50 surprising lives of significant figures, obsessives, movers and shakers of the car world and motoring history
The Jaguar Story
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: Story of
ISBN: 9780750989244
Category : Jaguar automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of Jaguar, a rousing British success story!
Lost Cars of the 1940s and '50s
Author: Giles ChapmanPublisher: Lost Cars
ISBN: 9780750999458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Overlooked & Underrated? Not Any Longer... presenting sixty forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics