Beautiful Machines — The Era of the Elegant Sports Car
by Blake Z. Rong & gestalten
Start your engines for a grand tour of the most stylish grand motoring automobiles ever created. Evoking an era when elegance, romance, and outright 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 such as the Iso Grifo and Facel Vega to the groundbreaking designs of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and Renault Alpine and the advanced technology behind the Jensen FF or Porsche 918 Spyder - these cars are less transportation and more testaments to beauty, freedom, ambition, innovation, and speed.
This book tells the stories of over 45 cars that defined the zeitgeist in thrilling detail, paired with gorgeous full-color photos in this lavish ode to the world’s greatest automobiles, and shows how the most successful grand touring cars became trailblazers for the mass-production automotive industry in the past and for the future. Included are:
Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupé
Mercedes Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut
Porsche 356 Gmünd Coupé
Maserati A6GCS/53 Pininfarina Berlinetta
Porsche 550 Spyder
BMW 507
Jaguar E-Type
Ferrari 250 SWB
Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Type 14
Aston Martin DB4 GT
Matra Djet
Shelby Cobra 289
Facel Vega Facel II
Ferrari 250 GTO Scaglietti
Apollo GT
Ford GT40 Gold
Porsche 906 Carrera 6
Lamborghini 350GT
Iso Grifo
Toyota 2000GT
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale
Jensen Interceptor
Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2
Mercedes-Benz 230SL "Pagoda"
Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona
Ford Mustang Fastback
Aston Martin DBS V8
Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray
De Tomaso Mangusta
Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupé
Lamborghini Miura SV
Datsun 240Z
BMW 3.0 CS
Citroen SM
Ferrari 512 BB
Porsche 928
Renault Alpine A110
Plymouth Superbird
Honda NSX
Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
BMW i8
Porsche 918 Spyder
Bentley Continental GT
Buch, Hardcover, 30 x 27 cm, 320 Seiten, ca. 600 farbige Abbildungen, englischer Text
