The Sports Car: Its design and performance - Hardcover

Colin Campbell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041215000X ISBN 13: 9780412150005

Publisher: Springer, 1978

Synopsis

Colin Campbell offers a thorough and systematic examination of some of the finest achievements in sports car design through the late seventies. His technical survey spans engine and valve train designs, tire and suspension considerations, chassis construction, brakes, and standards of performance. Of particular value and interest-especially to design engineers working on new car projects-is the section containing detailed design studies on outstanding production sports cars from four manufacturers: Jaguar, Lotus, Mercedes and Porsche. By pointing out design features that are of particular merit with regard to overall performance, this book should also prove highly useful to readers who are choosing and preparing a car for Showroom Stock racing, or who are designing their own sports cars.

About this title

About the Author

Colin Campbell is University Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Washington.

Graham Wilson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 041215000X
• ISBN 13: 9780412150005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 306