“Ford GT” captures the story of the famed endurance racer, offering the kind of deep dive that isn’t possible via other forms of media–like a Hollywood blockbuster, for example.
During preseason testing for the 2001 NASCAR season, Hubbard was in Daytona working with a few drivers. Dale Earnhardt had zero interest in the HANS Device. He died just a few weeks later due to a basal skull fracture. Immediately the HANS Device became front-page news. “CRASH!” details the HANS Device’s history, from impetus to now-ubiquitous piece of motorsports equipment.
So many of Germany’s automotive greats were aligned with Hitler, but one small band of interlopers kept Germany from winning all the marbles.
More than half a century ago, the Datsun 240Z changed everything. Suddenly the world had a modern sports car that sold for less than the status quo.
“Corvette Stingray: The Mid-Engine Revolution” covers follow-up visions of a mid-engine Corvette, from the CERV I to the most recent C8 Corvette.
The humble Mini changed the worldwide automotive industry, and six decades after its introduction Giles Chapman takes a detailed look back.
It’s a book you can pick up, read for a few pages, and come away feeling satisfied. The focus feels both narrow and wide, yet the thread of innovation ties everything together.
A review of "Jaguar Century: 100 Years of Automotive Excellence” by Giles Chapman.
A review of “The Big Book of Tiny Cars: A Century of Diminutive Automotive Oddities” by Russell Hayes.
A review of “Porsche at Le Mans: 70 Years” by Glen Smale.
