Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Pontiac Concept & Show Cars

by Don Keefe

Pontiac was once an important test bed for new ideas and this book by an expert’s expert covers almost 70 years of concept cars and traces their influence on production models.

Mercedes-Benz WINNING! 120 Years on the World’s Greatest Race Tracks and in India

by Adil Jal Darukhanawala

A high-level overview of M-B’s global racing history and, probably for the first time in the West, an account of the marque’s passenger and commercial cars in India

Maserati: The Evolution of Style

by Roberto Iasoni, Photos by Roberto Carrer

Forget the brand or that this is about a car: if you have an affinity for the storytelling power of images, you’ll like this book.

Classic Fighters Colouring Book

by Dariusz Grzywacz

Leaving aside the question of whether children should be coloring warplanes, this book offers 3-views and outlines of 15 aircraft, along with brief specs and a few words as to their purpose. There are worse ways to spend $5.50 . . .

The Cars of Harley Earl

by David W. Temple

A fine survey not just of specific cars Earl’s fertile mind dreamed up but also of the why and how that guide a product designer’s thinking.

Bugatti Veyron: A Quest for Perfection

by Martin Roach

The ultra exotic Veyron may cost £1m to buy but it cost way more to build. So what’s in it for Bugatti? And who are the people lining up to buy it? And what’s it like to drive one? All is revealed here.

The Fairey Flycatcher

by Matthew Willis

During the decade between the world wars the little Flycatcher could be found in many corners of the world but it cut its best figure in aerobatics.

Classics on the Street: An Automotive Odyssey, France 1953

by Robert Straub

A moment in time. And what a moment, in automotive terms. Postwar Europe was still populated with prewar iron—and much of it was irretrievably gone a mere ten years later.

Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner

by Jonathan Glancey

You may have missed the memo but within only the last year two major initiatives have been launched to revive supersonic civilian air travel—forty years after Concorde first tested the waters. And we know how that went.

Legendary Corvettes: ’Vettes Made Famous on Track and Screen

by Randy Leffingwell

Only a handful of GM model names have lived longer—the Suburban (1935) and De Ville (1949) come to mind. The Corvette crossed the million-car threshold way back in 1993 and, with few exceptions, each new iteration adds to the luster of the name.

Rolls-Royce: The Post-War Phantoms IV, V, VI

by Martin Bennett

All Rolls-Royces are special; some are more special. Fewer than 1000 of these three top of the line models were made and this fine book covers them in the detail they deserve.

Porsche 911 Turbo – Aircooled Years 1975–1998

by Andreas Gabriel & Norbert A.J. Franz

Among the piles of 911 books this one is a worthy contender, beautifully made, substantial, and with hard—and factory-authenticated—data that will settle many an argument.