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The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future

by Levi Tillemann

The Great Race recounts the story of a century-long battle between automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance—and a race to build the car of the future.

The world’s great manufacturing...

Reckoning to Revival: How American Workers Rebuilt an Industry

by Keith Naughton

A special report on the resurgence of the Detroit auto industry using the Chrysler Jeep plant at Jefferson North as a focal point. The report centers on the characters behind the plant and the new technology...

From Farmer to World Leader - Delfingen

by Claudine Le Tourneur d'Ison

The story of Delfingen is not only the story of Bernard Streit who remarkably developed the company but it also closely relates to the astonishing path of the Streit family, men and women of sturdy character,...

Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture

by James B. Twitchell

There are close to 8.5 million RVs on the U.S. highways and roads today, and if you are a man in your fifties, there is a good chance you have owned or are about to own a recreational vehicle. Winnebago Nation...

Auto Brand: Building Successful Car Brands for the Future

by Anders Parment

The car - once everybody's dream and a key status symbol in most countries and cultures - has been extensively questioned in the last decades and in the last few years particularly. Urbanisation, traffic congestion,...

The Impacts of Automotive Plant Clo: A Tale of Two Cities

by Andrew Beer & Holli Evans

Economic restructuring has been a notable feature of so-called mature industrial economies such as the UK and Australia in the last two decades, with deregulation, privatisation, technological change and globalisation...

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

by Bryce G. Hoffman

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE EPIC TURNAROUND OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CEO ALAN MULALLY.

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry...

Driven to Succeed: How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global

by Rod McQueen & Susan M. Papp

Hungarian-born Frank Hasenfratz fled his native land in 1956 after the revolution to free his nation from Soviet domination failed. He eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario, where he founded Linamar, now the...

Car Wars: Fifty Years of Backstabbing, Infighting, And Industrial Espionage in the Global Market

by Mantle Jonathan

An "astonishing...eye-opening chronicle" (Publisher's Weekly) of backstabbing, infighting, and industrial theft and espionage in the world's biggest business. It makes empires; it destroys economies; it shapes...

Managing Careers at Michelin

by Daniel BOULANGER & Alan DUKE

At a time of increasing debate over the advantages of careers in big companies, here is a view from the inside of what takes place at Michelin. This legendary company, renowned throughout the world but still...

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

by Bob Lutz

"One of the most acute books about management and how com­panies work in practice that I have read in a long time. If anyone wants to know exactly how the U.S. auto industry got into trou­ble, here is your...

Cheating The Dealer: Classified: Author Reveals The Top Secrets To Saving Thousands On Your Car Repair

by Steven E Shaw

Cheating the Dealer is Steven Shaw's way of informing consumers of the real dealership world.  Customers will finally be armed with the knowledge and tools to ensure a winning experience at the dealership. ...

Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry

by Steven Rattner

The inside story of how the Obama administration masterminded the rescue of the U.S. auto industry   

The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream

by Micheline Maynard

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the American automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless...

The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century

by Steven Watts

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly...

The Book of Sports Cars - (United States and Italy)

by Charles Lam Markmann & Mark Sherwin

“… This is a book for which lovers of the automobile have waited a long time: the most comprehensive text-and-picture history of the dual-purpose car since it came to life more than sixty years ago. As the...

The Book of Sports Cars - (France and Germany)

by Charles Lam Markmann & Mark Sherwin

“… This is a book for which lovers of the automobile have waited a long time: the most comprehensive text-and-picture history of the dual-purpose car since it came to life more than sixty years ago. As the...

Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival

by Carlos Ghosn

In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds...

The Turning Wheel - The story of General Motors through twenty-five years 1908-1933

by Arthur Pound

“ …GENERAL MOTORS in 1933 reached its twenty-fifth milestone. Since the founding of General Motors Company of New Jersey in 1908, the growth of the organization has contributed a unique chapter to American...

ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

by Vijay Vaitheeswaran & Iain Carson

"Zoom goes zero to sixty in nothing flat. It's an exciting ride into the future of the world's favorite physical object, the automobile."

-Gregg Easterbrook, author of THE PROGRESS PARADOX

"Zoom offers a new way...