Velocity: Supercar Revolution - Hardcover

Lamm, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760325960 ISBN 13: 9780760325964

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2006

Synopsis

They're incredibly fast, they're incredibly beautiful, and they turn heads and set speed records with every incarnation. Velocity: Supercar Revolution is the first complete history of the supercar and tells the story behind the most desirable cars in the world. With stunning photographs, detailed text, and a host of commentaries from Jay Leno and other collectors, famed automotive photographer John Lamm provides an in-depth historical, cultural, and technological account of these amazing machines. Organized by decade and by top speed, the book details these luxurious cars over the past 40 years as they reached speeds of 170, 180, 190, and finally 200-plus miles per hour, the informal mark of today's supercar.Velocity: Supercar Revolution charts the evolution of the battle for engine supremacy and performance among the world's leading marques, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Porsche, Aston Martin, Ford GT, among others. The book profiles the designers and engineers who developed these cars, and includes interviews with the racers and celebrities who drive them, and of course, fabulous photographs of the supercars themselves. Included in the book are several hilarious and informative commentaries by Jay Leno, the host of The Tonight Show and one of the best-known automotive collectors and enthusiasts in the world, telling stories and opinions on these cars (many of which he owns).Velocity: Supercar Revolution conveys as never before the power of automotive aesthetics and performance pushed to their absolute limits. It is a benchmark in automotive publishing and destined to become a classic history of these incredible marques. 

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From the Inside Flap

In the mid 1960s the postwar boutique automakers producing exquisite race cars in their small shops in Europe unleashed an entirely new breed of automobile on the motor sports world: the supercar. These outrageous machines packaged the technology automakers like Ferrari, Porsche, Maserati, and Lamborghini had developed for use on the track in exclusive road-going cars for well-heeled enthusiasts.

 

Velocity: Supercar Revolution tells the story of these cars, and of the supercar movement itself, through profiles of and interviews with the designers and engineers who developed these cars, the men who raced them, and the celebrities who drive them today. Through the first-hand stories and spectacular photography of John Lamm, a man who was present at the birth of most of these fabulous cars, this book conveys as never before the power of automotive aesthetics and performance pushed to their absolute limit.

 

From the Back Cover

Velocity: Supercar Revolution, the first complete history of the supercar, tells the story behind the most desirable cars in the world. With stunning photography and vivid first-hand recollections from a lifetime spent as an automotive journalist, author/photographer John Lamm provides an in-depth historical, cultural, and technological account of these amazing machines as they reached speeds of 170, 180, 190, and finally 200-plus miles per hour—the informal mark of today’s supercar.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0760325960
• ISBN 13: 9780760325964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352