Marque & Motor Sport Manufacturers

Aston Martin's survival in the immediate post-war period was by no means certain, and it was to depend heavily on tractor and gear magnate, David Brown. Purchasing the company in 1947, he quickly followed up by buying Lagonda, moving both firms into adjacent premises at Feltham, thus forming Aston M..

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In 1982, when Audi exhibited an all aluminium car body at the Hanover Fair, it was the public's first indication that the Ingolstadt based company had decided to act against each successive model's seemingly inevitable increase in weight. The task of investigating a volume production car suitable fo..

"I was a fan of the Quattro even before I drove it for the first time." After more than 25 years, double world rally champion, Walter Rohrl, is still fascinated by the Audi Quattro. No other car has shaped and changed rallying more than the silver bullet with turbocharging and four-wheel drive comin..

This volume forms part of the informative and superb value Super Profile series from Haynes Publishing. This book includes a description of the history, production changes, specifications, road test reprints, owners’ views, buyers guide and relevant clubs and specialists for this model. It is profus..

Of all the sports cars produced, few have generated such enthusiasm as the Austin Healey. If anything, the cult of the Big Healey has snowballed since production ceased in 1967: with official clubs spanning the world, few marques can claim such a fervent following. In the past, both Geoffrey and his..

Auto Union Album is a superb photographic record of the racing exploits of the legendary mid-engined Silver Arrows designed by Professor Ferdinand Porsche (1934-1937) and Professor Robert von Eberhorst (1938-1939). Learning of a collection of negatives from the 1930s discovered by Auto Union GmbH, a..

With the founding of the Auto Union in 1932, and the new trade mark four circles depicting the joining of Horch, Wanderer, Audi and DKW, this was the start of a new age for motor sport. Daimler-Benz was a strong competitor in the automotive market place and, especially in racing. The announcement fo..

The specification says it all: Six litres, Sixteen cylinders, Supercharged. This elephantine engine runs on alcohol and thumps out enough torque to pull down the walls of Babylon. Indeed, the bellowing Auto Union was the Handwriting on the Wall for the traditional notion of a Grand Prix car. It’s ra..

This is a unique history of a most distinguished marque – Bentley. The book contains a wealth of contemporary material, covering models from the prototype 3-litre of 1919, through the immortal 4.5 litre, 6.5 litre and 8-litre cars of the W.O. Bentley era, the little known 4-litre, the 3.5 and 4.25 l..

Autodelta of Feletto Umberto was an extremely important enterprise, both in technological and human terms. Like a meteor it illuminated for one intense but fleeting moment the world of labour in the Friuli, a world which, during the years of the Italian economic miracle was struggling to emerge. Aut..

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