More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture.
Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom
and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made
the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our
imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they
have, by their need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge
factories and global supply chains, re-engineered the world. Almost
everything we now need, want, imagine or aspire to assumes the
existence of cars in all their limitless power and their complex
systems of meanings. This book celebrates the immense drama and
beauty of the car, of the genius embodied in the Ford Model T, of
the glory of the brilliant-red Mercedes Benz S-Class made by
workers for Nelson Mandela on his release from prison, of Kanye
West's 'chopped' Maybach, of the salvation of the Volkswagen Beetle
by Major Ivan Hirst, of Elvis Presley's 100 Cadillacs, of the
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and the BMC Mini and even of that
harbinger of the end - the Tesla Model S and its creator Elon Musk.
As the age of the car as we know it comes to an end, Bryan
Appleyard's brilliantly insightful book tells the story of the rise
and fall of the incredible machine that made the modern world what
it is today.
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