History of the Motor Car by Marco Matteucci

The History of the Motor Car is a real milestone in the literature of this fascinating subject. The text is admirable, carefully researched, authoritative, clear and immensely readable, covering this major theme in a comprehensive yet not over-technical way. The lavish and carefully assembled illustrations are superb: over 700 of them of which nearly 500 are in full colour. 

All the significant names in the evolving world of motor car appear in these pages; the greatest have a ring both of history and romance - Darracq and Daimler, Benz, Bentley, and Bugatti, Lanchester, Rolls-Royce, Hispano-Suiza, De Dion, Citroen, Fiat, Ford and so many others; the whole absorbing history being vividly illuminated by its great wealth of splendid and evocative pictures.