CAR DESIGN

The automobile has always been as much about style as engineering, notsimply a means of transportation but a status symbol meant to impressothers and project the success of its owner. Car Design is a comprehensivecollection of photographs from European, Japanese, and American automobileadvertising campaigns of the last fifty years. Lavishly illustrated withover 400 color and black and white photos of distinctively designedautomobiles, this compendium can be viewed as a decade-by-decade chronicleof consumer culture since World War II or as an amusing look at car culturefor enthusiasts.