Personenwagen: Bücher - Geschichte und Modelle

Personenwagen aus Osteuropa - Was nicht in die DDR importiert wurde (Typenkompass)

Dieses Buch ergänzt die beiden bereits erschienenen Typenkompassbände "DDR-Personenwagen" und "DDR-Personenwagen - Importe aus RGW-Staaten". Viele Typen der in den übrigen Ostblockländern produzierten Pkws waren nämlich in der DDR gar nicht oder nur in der Grundausführung erhältlich.

Das hier vorliegende Werk beschreibt all diese übrigen, in den ehemaligen Ostblockländern Bulgarien, Rumänien, Sowjetunion, Tschechoslowakei, Polen und Jugoslawien in Serie produzierten Pkws, Geländewagen und Transporter bis zu einer Tonne Nutzlast, sodass alle drei Bände gemeinsam einen umfassenden Überblick über die Typenvielfalt der osteuropäischen Fahrzeugindustrie ergeben.

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Jeder Typ wird mit einem Foto, einer historischen Beschreibung und einem technischen Datenblatt vorgestellt.

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Oldtimer aus aller Welt

Die ersten Autos waren Kutschen ohne Pferde, doch dabei blieb es nicht. Im Jahrhundert nach der Erfindung des Automobils bauten weltweit rund 10.000 Hersteller mal mehr, mal weniger erfolgreich Autos.
Die schönsten und wichtigsten stellt dieser Prachtband vor. Er spannt den Bogen von den Pionierjahren der Frühzeit bis hin zur Massenmotorisierung der 1970er: Autoträume von gestern und vorgestern, Legenden aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, den USA und weiteren Nationen wie Belgien, Japan oder Spanien. Mal bildschön, mal skurril - ein faktenreicher Überblick mit über 130 Markenportraits und 400 Bildern.

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The Classic Car Book - The Definitive Visual History

From the Chevrolet Bel Air to the Ferrari Testarossa, The Classic Car Book showcases the most important and iconic classic cars from every decade since the 1940s.
Fully illustrated and packed with stunning photography, this beautiful book uses specially commissioned photographic tours to put you in the driver's seat of the world's most famous vintage cars, including stylish roadsters and luxury limousines from manufacturers such as Mercedez-Benz, Ferrari, Rover, Jaguar, and Bentley.

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The Classic Car Book takes you on a scenic drive through the history of classic cars, profiling iconic models and key details of the world's most famous vehicles, and charting their legacy as objects of luxury and desire.
Ideal for any car collectors and enthusiasts, this is an essential addition to every fans' bookshelf.

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Beautiful machines - The era of the elegant sports car

Start your engines for a grand tour of the most stylish grand motoring automobiles ever created. Evoking an era when elegance, romance, and outright performance defined the automobile - and the fascinating stories that made them icons of the road.

From the shark-inspired Maserati Ghibli to the fiery Lamborghini Miura, from European elegance with American firepower such as the Iso Grifo and Facel Vega to the groundbreaking designs of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and Renault Alpine and the advanced technology behind the Jensen FF or Porsche 918 Spyder - these cars are less transportation and more testaments to beauty, freedom, ambition, innovation, and speed.

This book was conceived and edited by gestalten. Stories are written by automobile expert Blake Z. Rong with a preface by Classic Driver's Jan Baedeker and gestalten's Robert Klanten.

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Classic Car Gallery - A Journey Through Motoring History

Presents a stunning collection of photographs of old cars of all marques and types captured in many locations. Across Allards to Bugattis, Citroëns DKWs, Porsches, Saabs, Triumphs, Voisins, VWs, and a pot-pourri of well-known classics, the author has journeyed far and wide to create a wonderful diary of classic car moments amid the great enthusiasm for nostalgia on wheels.
A mix of cars, people, portraits, action and atmosphere all blend in to a colourful journey across the classic car world in a diverse blend of marques and eras.

250 colour and black and white images populate an odyssey across a landscape of cars in an interesting format that pitches multi-million pound cars alongside more humble names. Seen on the move and static, Lance Cole's photographs capture the essence of metal sculpture, light falling upon paint and form, and the design hallmarks of old cars prior to the age of digital design authoritarianism when so many cars look similar.

If you love old metal, patina, paint, leather, and enthusiasm, all captured across vintage, veteran, classic and modern classic metal, then the Classic Car Gallery is a rare memento of the cars of yesteryear seen in the celebration of their today.

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Classic Cars : A Century of Masterpieces

Simon de Burton journeys through some of the most coveted cars of the twentieth century. From the Alfa Romeo 6C to the Porsche 996 GT3, the author has chosen cars from each decade from the 1930s to the end of the twentieth century, his choices made from the perspective of the enthusiast and collector.
All are considered 'milestone' cars and all have risen substantially in value in the past five to ten years.

They are not all necessarily the fastest, rarest or most valuable cars, but they are all highly significant and highly regarded. These are the cars that should have been bought when they were new and kept for the future - now that they are truly desired.

Features cars from across the varied spans of time, price and purpose, including: Lancia Lambda, Austin Seven, Volkswagen Beetle, Jaguar C-Type, Citroen DS19, Ford Mustang, DeLorean DMC 12, McLaren F1.

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Drive - The Definitive History of Motoring

A car book which takes you through motoring history, from classic cars to how we enjoy driving today, and beyond. As Jodie Kidd says in her introduction "Sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the ride".
From the public's amazement at the idea of a horseless carriage to today's excitement for driverless vehicles, find out everything you need to know about motoring from 1895 to the present day.

Begin your journey through the history of motoring with Drive, and weave your way through the twists and turns of the early days, through to how the motorcar has shaped the modern world over the last century.

It also reveals the exciting and impressive advances in technology and design that have made cars faster, safer, and better to drive, and transformed them from a means of transport into objects of status, excitement, and desire.
Speed through personal accounts of motoring throughout the years, and discover exciting new facts about the world's most famous racing events.

From the first service stations to the latest fuel cell, this book tells the full motoring story.

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The Art of the Classic Sports Car : Pace and Grace

Sports cars are the athletes of the automotive world. Always nimble and quick, often powerful, sports cars fly where other cars lumber, and dash where others plod. The definition of a sports car is somewhat fluid, still, most car fans feel that they know a sports car when they see one, and when asked to name a few will rattle off Jaguar, Corvette, Triumph, MG, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lotus, Alfa-Romeo, BMW, and many others.

Sports cars have offered road and track excitement for nearly 100 years. The original cars evolved for racing, but their appeal and popularity ensured that production versions were soon available for those whose sporting intents never left the boulevard or winding back road.

"The Art of the Classic Sports Car" offers enthusiasts a beautifully illustrated review of several decades of high-performance cars, featuring cars from around the globe all shot in the studio to ensure a handsome book.
Each featured car includes a profile discussing the car's place in sports car history along with technical and performance specs as well as a smattering of historical images and period ads.

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The Car Book

The Car Book stylishly shows you everything you might want to know about the history of the automobile. With stunning visual images and over 2,000 cars featured, the evolution of the car is tracked from decade to decade and across international borders, from India's Ambassador to Italy's Alfa Romeo.

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Ever wondered how Porsche and Chevrolet became household names? Discover the stories behind the men and the machines that created the most famous marques and take a virtual tour of the anatomy of iconic cars from each era.

If you love cars, then you'll love this - The Car Book is simply a must-have title for all car enthusiasts.

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Voitures audacieuses, enthousiasmes et déceptions de l'aventure automobile

Originality has always been one of the characteristics of the automobile, but not the rule. The need to innovate for technical or stylistic reasons has often resulted in different, endearing cars. They sometimes had the defects of their qualities: lack of reliability because of their sophistication, exorbitant price... Which gave birth to cars like the Tucker or Jensen Interceptor FF sometimes produced in a few dozen copies!
Others immediately convinced the general public and were produced in millions of copies for decades!
Bold cars are not the prerogative of certain brands or a given period, but throughout the history of the automobile, models have stood out, whatever their price, nationality or era.

This book is not intended to be an exhaustive catalog but a work telling their story, illustrated with numerous documents and accompanied by surprising anecdotes. It will appeal to both the informed amateur and the novice interested in automobiles.

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300 Voitures au destin inattendu

As the little one mixes with the big story, we discover that the leading roles of the greatest actors, singers and other VIPs have often been played by their partner cars...
Aren't Bullit's Ford Mustang, the Jaguar XK 120 or the psychedelic Rolls Phantom V inextricably linked to Steve McQueen, Françoise Sagan and John Lennon?
Beyond the fiction of a diabolical Plymouth Fury, the heroine of Christine, the reality of the almost eternal life of certain cars far exceeds the wildest imagination.

A richly illustrated story, teeming with anecdotes and secrets that, without this book, would have remained forever buried in the most tightly closed drawers. Stories of love, passion, gentle madness or grandeur, between extraordinary people and cars.

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Joyaux automobiles des maharadjahs

In 1898, a European company imported three "horseless carriages" to British India, which found buyers in some of the country's princely states.
This event marked the beginning of the Maharajas' great love affair with automobiles. The arrival of these cars completely changed the lifestyle of Indian royalty, triggering a devouring passion that lasted for decades.

Recognized today as an integral part of the fascinating history of the automobile, only a few hundred have survived among the thousands of these magnificent, sometimes devilishly exotic cars that once belonged to the five hundred or so wealthy Indian princes of the first half of the 20th century.
Some of them are abroad with collectors or exhibited in museums in Europe or America, others are in the hands of Indian collectors, and still others among the most remarkable are still the property of declining Indian princely families, vestiges of a prestigious past.
This book tells the stories of the most extraordinary of them - some 70 of the most beautiful and rare cars that can still be found.

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L’Art des grandes classiques

Great classics, pre-war vintage cars - from such legendary brands as Packard, Duesenberg, Stutz, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, Cord and others. Cars reaching seven-figure prices, worth millions of dollars, which drive buyers crazy at auctions around the world and attract crowds to the most prestigious concours d'elegance. The most beautiful of these machines are brought together in this book: "The Art of Great Classics".

Enhanced by Peter Harholdt's stunning studio photography and authoritative texts by automotive historian Peter Bodensteiner, this book is as much a work of art as the automobiles it features.

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Million dollar classics - Les voitures de rêve les plus exclusives au monde

This book features the world's most expensive cars, from an 1884 De Dion to the McLaren F1, a supercar that was designed more than a hundred years later to be the best in the world and became an instant classic.

Between these iconic cars is a unique collection of the most powerful, rare, and beautiful cars ever made by Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Duesenberg, Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and many others, each beautifully photographed and comprehensively described.

Cars like the Bugatti Type 57S, Jaguar C-Type, Ferrari 250 GT, Aston Martin Zagato, and Ford GT40 have only one thing in common: they are all worth over a million dollars today, and in some cases much more.

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1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-à-Dos

1912 Bugatti 5-Liter - 1913 Bugatti Black Bess 5-Liter Type 18

1930 Duesenberg Model J Dual Cowl Phaeton - 1930 Mercedes-Benz SS - 1931 Bugatti Royale Type 41 - 1932 Bugatti Type 55 - 1933 Bugatti Type 59 Supercharged 3.3 Liter - 1933 Duesenberg Model SJ Phaeton - 1934 Packard 12 Runabout LeBaron Speedster - 1935 Duesenberg SJ Speedster Mormon Meteor - 1935 Duesenburg SJN Convertible Coupe - 1935 Aston Martin Ulster LM19 - 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet A - 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Cabriolet - 1937 Bugatti Type 57S - 1937 Mercedez-Benz 540K Special Roadster - 1937 Mercedez-Benz 540K Special Roadster - 1938 Delahaye 135 MS Cabriolet - 1938 Talbot Lago T23 Teardrop Coupe - 1939 Mercedes-Benz W154

1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt - 1948 Ferrari 166 Scaglietti Spyder - 1948 Tucker Sedan

1952 Jaguar C-Type - 1953 Ferrari 250 MM Spyder - 1953 Maserati A6 GCS - 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R - 1954 Ferrari 250 Monza Spyder - 1955 Jaguar D-Type - 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLS Prototype Roadster - 1956 Maserati Tipo 52 200 SI Sport Internazionale - 1956 Porsche 550 Rennsport Spyder - 1957 Ferrari 250 Pontoon Fender Testa Rossa - 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Scaglietti - 1959 Ferrari 250 GT TdF Berlinetta - 1959 Ferrari 246 S Dino

1960 Aston Martin DB4GT - 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 "Birdcage" - 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Sefac Hot Rod - 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Zagato - 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Zagato - 1962 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM Testa Rossa - 1963 Shelby Daytona Coupe - 1964 Ford GT40 Prototype - 1964 Shelby Cobra Team CSX 2431 - 1966 Ferrari 250 LM - 1967 Ferrari NART Spyder

1996 McLaren F1 - 2014 Aston Martin DB10.

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Voitures de prestige de collection

Soft mechanics, bourgeois interiors, luxurious bodies, sleek or extravagant lines: since the beginning of the automobile, the world of the prestige car has marked the imagination of everyone by arousing respect and admiration.
This book reveals through the pages the behind the scenes of the creation of the great icons of the automobile that have become so popular on the collector's market. Richly documented, it offers a wealth of anecdotes and historical and technical information on these models that make collectors dream and sometimes remain affordable to the most modest of them.

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