Automotive Culture: A Century

Author: Fang Nian Wu Yuan (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: It is a monster born from the Industrial Revolution. It has been accompanying human history. It carries you on crowded city highways towards a week of busy work. It carries billionaires and beauties swiftly across the coast. It also takes heads of state to events that change the world. Those square, streamlined, futuristic, and indescribable shapes, those 6-cylinder and 12-cylinder engines, those 300 kilometers per hour speeds and 5-second zero-to-60 launches, those deep black, elegant silver, alluring red, and dazzling bright yellow. Initially, it was a tool for people. Now, no one can escape its charm. It has become part of life, and you have become it.
The series A Century of Car Culture consists of 3 books, covering over 100 years from the birth of the automobile to the early 21st century. It includes all classic models from major automobile manufacturers in 6 major global car-producing countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. It not only features the development stories of car manufacturers and technical specifications of each vehicle but also tells the stories of events that have influenced social life. As cars and society intertwine and progress, it presents a complete picture of the automobile.