Beautiful Machines: The Era of the Elegant Sports Car

Automobile expert Blake Z. Rong's coffee-table book "Beautiful Machines" tells the stories of more than 45 cars that defined the zeitgeist in thrilling detail, combined with stunning full-color photographs in this sumptuous ode to the world's greatest automobiles and shows how the most successful grand touring cars became trailblazers for the mass-production automobile industry past and future.

Start your engines for a grand tour of the most stylish cars ever made. An era when elegance, romance and sheer 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 like the Iso Grifo and Facel Vega to the groundbreaking designs of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and Renault Alpine and the cutting-edge technology behind the Jensen FF or Porsche 918 Spyder - these cars are less transportation and more testament to beauty, freedom, ambition, innovation and speed.

Specifications
Title: Beautiful Machines
Publisher: Gestalten
Size: 371 x 278 x 35 mm
Size: 320 pages
Weight: 2474 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783899559880

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