Cars We Loved in the 1980s
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.
Product details
| Author: | Giles Chapman |
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| Details: | 160 pages, 6.1 x 7.1 x 0.43 in (15.5 x 18 x 1.1 cm), paperback |
| Illustrations: | 150 b&w photos |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd (GB, 2014) |
| ISBN: | 9780750958455 |
