Cars

A car is a wheeled, self-powered motor vehicle used for transportation and a product of the automotive industry. Most definitions of the term specify that cars are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels with tyres, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car. In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars did not become widely available until the early 20th century. One of the first cars that was a ...more

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
Surviving to Drive
Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1
The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris―The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
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Retrofuturism (nonfiction)
30 books — 7 voters


Kurt Tucholsky
Der Deutsche fährt nicht wie andere Menschen. Er fährt, um recht zu haben.
Kurt Tucholsky, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

Rebecca Solnit
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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