Motor Cars: General Interest

Automobile heritage encompasses a complex range of artefacts and activities. Beyond just historic vehicles which are the primary artefacts of this ...

It was code-named X100 and it was to be Jaguar's latest sports cars, featuring both coupe and convertible coachwork. It was to have an all-new V8 e...

The car that would become the DB7 began its gestation in 1991. Developed entirely under the ownership of Ford, this new smaller Aston Martin was i...

There are automobiles that left no trace of their passing; they slipped into anonymity almost as though they had never existed, vanished like snow ...

In 1903, before the Ford Motor Company was even incorporated, Stephen Tenvoorde signed a contract to sell “Fordmobiles” at his bicycle shop in St. ...

In this long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling first edition of How to Draw Cars Like a Pro, renowned car designer Thom Taylor goes back to the...

Porsche AG, today the most profitable car company in the world, was in 1975 a small but headstrong German automaker on the verge of its most sig...

During the economic boom of the 1920s, Cadillac engineers sought to build a ""halo car"" - an automobile with no hope of selling enough units to re...

This is the history of the Ford Motor Company's achievements and products during World Wars I and II. It demonstrates how, in addition to well-k...

Launched in 1960 with design by Pininfarina, the Peugeot 404 proved to be a highly successful model that helped to enhance Peugeot’s reputation for...

Delve into a piece of automobile history and experience one of the rarest Ferrari models! The quality of some sports cars can be deduced from their...

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and, similarly, the dream of developing a world class American sports car took time and effort. Harley Earl and Ed Cole...

Andy Saunders’ ‘Automotive Alchemist’ is a roller-coaster ride through the highs and lows of this charismatic man’s life. From the early years of l...

"Anyone who always wanted to know about the Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood, it can all be found here thanks to high-quality images from photograph...

The fifth volume in the Car Racing series charts 1969, the year of avoiding unnecessary risk. Le Mans circuit, 14 June 1969. Silence reigns. In a m...

Delve into Formula One’s most iconic rivalries with stunning photography, insight from celebrated F1 journalist Tony Dodgins and a foreword by nine...

Prior to World War I, auto racing featured expensive machines and teams financed by auto factories. The teams toured the country, and most of the r...

A stunningly illustrated tribute to all things car, Automotive celebrates the ingenuity and usability of cars, trucks and motorbikes past, present ...

The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagine in an age of superhighwa...

During its extraordinarily long 40-year production run, the Mini was offered in hundreds of variants. First there were the standard Austin Seven an...

In July 1965, an Artesian Turquoise Chevrolet Biscayne rolled off a General Motors assembly line. Little did James Ward know that this car would...

In 1915, journalist Emily Post set out from New York to investigate whether it was possible to drive comfortably across the country to San Franc...

This book is a comprehensive illustrated study of coachbuilders and coachbuilding in Britain. The author sets the scene by describing advances in f...