The Greatest Cars

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The Greatest Cars by Ralph Stein. Here they are—the ten greatest names in automobile history, the marques that best represent engineering excellence, stylistic panache, and the exhilaration of performance at high speed:
Alfa Romeo, Duesenberg, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Bentley, Hispano-Baize, Maserati, Isotta-Fraschini, Rolls-Royce

With the expertise of long association and steadfast admiration, Ralph Stein tells the story of each of the favoured ten. Tracing the development of each from its beginnings, he discusses in loving detail the technical innovations, design features, and handling and performance characteristics that have made these cars the creme de la creme of the automotive world. Among the models found in these pages are the revolutionary Mercedes Sixty of 1903; the immortal Silver Ghost Rolls-Royce; the superluxurious H6 Hispano-Suiza, a favourite of princes and pashas in the 1920's; the Type 35 Grand Prix Bugatti; magnificent Bora, Maserati's finest Gran Turismo machine; and the 1750 Gran Sport Alfa Romeo, perhaps the most nearly perfect sports car of all time. Stein does not neglect the people who made these the greatest cars. He tells us about all of them, from Berta Benz, who in 1888 sneaked out at dawn to drive her husband's motorized tricycle to a town some 40 miles distant and thus became the first person in history to make a lengthy journey in a horseless carriage, to Frederick Henry Royce, who began with £20 and a fervent devotion to excellence and went on to create what has long been acknowledged as "the Best Car in the World." Stein has researched new information for this book and sought out new, as well as familiar, examples to photograph. The result is a superlative masterwork, written with great wit and thoroughness, that is destined to become a classic.
The Greatest Cars is illustrated with a dazzling array of colour and black-and-white photographs, many taken especially for this book. 

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