Motor Vehicles Books

Ask any man the first thing he would buy if he won the lottery and we guarantee you the answer would be - a supercar. It’s what every real man and every alpha woman aspires to - a blisteringly fast V8 engine, achingly high-tech design and style that snaps the necks of passers by as they watch ...

Classic American cars with classic American names - Chevy, Chrysler, Ford, Pontiac - are enormously popular in New Zealand and, each year, tens of thousands of fans flock to events such as the Whangamata Beach Hop, the Kumeu Classic Car and Hot Rod Show, Americarna in New Plymouth and the Dunedin Al...

When Toyota decided to test-drive the new FJ Cruiser by driving the length of New Zealand off-road, Marc Ellis was the obvious choice to be the driver. In his latest book, Marc recounts the highlights of this journey - the hard case characters he meets along the way, the challenges he had to underta...

Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson series! Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights. Again. En...

Jamie Whincup is the reigning Champion of V8 Supercars. At 27 years old he is already being compared to Peter Brock and will soon have overtaken Mark Skaife's record. This is Jamie's diary: a year, beginning with Bathurst 2009, when he aims for his third successive title and sets himself a challenge...

This book is the complete practical guide to repairing and renovating classic car bodywork for the amateur repairer. Illustrated throughout with step-by-step photo sequences, it describes how to undertake high-quality repairs at a fraction of the cost of that charged by an automotive bodyshop or res...

At Buffalo Bill's there was all manner of grilled and fried food, and this motorcycling connoisseur had a hard job choosing his burger. I decided to make the meal educational. Many will be wondering about the difference between buffalo and bison. Are they the same animal? The answer is a resounding ...

Pitting man and machine against the most challenging natural and manmade elements, "Top Gear Top Drives" takes six cars across six continents to bring you some of the most spectacular car journeys in the world. From a Smart in Russia to a Ferrari over the mountains of Ecuador, "To...

The witty tale of a real life mid-life crisis which took an ordinary Kiwi bloke around Australia on a motorbike, to fulfil his life-long Easy Rider inspired dreams of his long-lost youth. The result is a very dry look at the Big Dry Country told with self-deprecating wit by a first time author. A la...

From flying cars to amphibious vehicles, solar-powered saloons to rockets on wheels, these are over 50 of the most wacky cars ever devised. Fancy a car that drives sideways- Try the Jeep Hurricane. Or maybe a car in which the windows change color according to your mood for a more serene and health-g...

Once it would have been considered blasphemous to prefer anything on wheels that wasn′t a Ford or a Holden. Now Japanese performance cars rule the hearts and wallets of thousands, who are seduced by their power, speed and style. Including legendary cars from the early 1970s, when Datsun SSS...

The mysterious Stig, "Top Gear"'s resident racing driver and one of the most popular members of the "TG" team, has finally got a book of his own. But you'll have to work hard to find him, as he's been cleverly concealed in a series of brilliantly drawn scenes. You might spot him ...

Good old Dad and his good old Dad's car. As solid and dependable as the man himself, if a little less balding, Dad's car was almost a member of the family, whisking you to exciting days out, or just to visit boring relatives in distant parts of the country to the chant of 'are we nearly there yet?' ...

Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. She put on her sparkly crash helmet, armed herself with maps and a baffling array of visas, and got on her bike. Destination: Cape Town - and the small matter of tackling the Sahara, war-torn Angola ...

Help! They're All Out to Get Me! is a book created to make the new and even the not-so-new motorcyclist a better motorcyclist. Between these covers, you will find tips and tricks that make surviving the everyday world a much easier proposition for the everyday rider. Inside, you'll find everything y...

The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up the "Dakar challenge" have at least one t...

This is a revamped, rejuvenated and expanded edition of Clarkson's classic collection of car journalism.

From the Austin Allegro to the Renault Safrane, and from the MGB to the Volkswagen Beetle, this book brings together 50 of the worst cars ever to grace the roads of Britain. The book features everything from the aesthetically pathetic to the mechanically misguided and includes tales of the most biza...

There is an element of fanaticism in bicycle culture rarely seen among the varied forms of locomotion. A love affair of sorts develops between rider and bike, with all the constituent parts: obsession, devotion and longing. In extreme cases, hospitalization is required - among the more restrained, b...

Covers Land Rover Series III Truck, Utility, half-ton, 4X4, vehicles with 12 & 24 volt electrical equipment.

The definitive history of 335-Series Cleveland Small Block Ford V8 Engines produced in the USA, Canada and Australia between 1970-1982. Years of meticulous and dedicated research have allowed Des Hammill to collate extensive and accurate information to produce this fully comprehensive, unique techni...

This exciting book is an essential guide to more than 30 of the world's best journeys for the adventure motorcyclist. The coverage for each route includes a first-hand account from someone who has made the trip together with comprehensive information on what to expect in terms of riding conditions, ...

The Essential Buyer's Guide carefully charts the 205 GTI models that an enthusiast just has to drive and own, from the pioneering 1.6 GTI, though its development to the 1.9 GTI. The CTI cabriolet is also covered. Weak points, rust traps, and potential mechanical defects are laid out for the reader, ...

"Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance" is the world's best-selling book on mountain bike maintenance and repair. This smartly organized and clearly illustrated guide--now in two colors for easier reference--can make a bike mechanic out of anyone. Lennard Zinn's expert advice m...

Life Is a Highway, a collection of the best automotive writing to date, captures the joys of the automobile, the historical circumstances of its creation, and the major events, people, and cars involved. This book includes the most significant writings and musings about the automobile ever recorded,...

Ford's Mustang is America's most iconic pony car. This lavishly illustrated work walks readers through Mustang's forty plus years of continuous production - a rich and varied history nearly unmatched in the automotive world. From the first six cylindered 'Stang of 1964 1/2 through today's fire breat...

Having infiltrated the Bandidos for three years in a landmark police operation, Alex Caine is uniquely positioned to tell the untold story of the Hells Angels fiercest rivals, the Bandidos. Started in the mid-sixties by a group of Texas malcontents and ex-military who idolized the Hells Angels, the...

The Vespa motor scooter caused quite a stir when it was launched in 1946 - just one year after the end of the War. Its futuristic and innovative design remains substantially unchanged after over 40 years. This is the illustrated history of the Vespa, its variants and imitators, its sporting and perf...

Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable disasters …). Or he would, if there weren't so many things competing for his atte...

When I'm in power there are going to be some changes around here, I can tell you. May's Britain is going to be a better place to live. Top Gear's James May is back with his hilarious and controversial opinions on ...just about everything. As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go...

This title presents a visual history of two-wheeled motorized transport: the motorcycle. It contains around 300 photographs from PA Photos' huge archives, spanning the whole of the 20th Century. The story of the motorcycle started when it was little more than a bicycle frame with an engine strapped ...

This is a detailed chronological guide to the development of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, from the first prototype to the final model of the 20th century. Explore the extensive guide to model names which includes the year of manufacture and engine type. It features over 600 glorious photographs o...

'A celebration of cultural detail, memory, obsession, and of lives lived by choice in the slow, humane lane' Independent The split screen, the indicators poking up like perspex orange fingers, the notoriously rust-prone floors, the pootling exhaust note…just some of the much-loved characteris...

Showcasing the inherent beauty and engineering brilliance of F1 race cars, this book highlights these magnificent machines as the works of art they are. The specially commissioned studio photographs capture the mix of competition, creativity, aggression, human ingenuity, technological advances, and ...

Ken Sibly is the co-author of 4WD South Island: 107 Off Road Adventures and 4WD South Island: 93 New Off Road Adventures. Both these books contain introductory sections offering practical advice on how to get the best out of your vehicle and how to stay out of trouble. In response to popular demand ...

Richard Hammond has had a longstanding love affair, bordering on the obsessive some might say, with caravans. He has researched their origins and history, celebrity owners, the uses to which they have been put, their place in history, names, jargon, games with, things to do in, recipes to cook in an...

The publication of The World According to Clarkson in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy's one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our hero's still scratching his head at the madness of it all. But it's not all bad. He'...

Since his tragically early death from cancer in 1995, John Britten has taken his place as a New Zealand hero. He and his dedicated team in Christchurch, designed and built from scratch the Britten V-twin motorcycle. For a time this machine was probably the fastest four-stroke bike in the world. It c...

The S2000 was full of the advanced thinking that had typified Honda's early years. With a top speed of 150mph, it was comparable to the Porsche Boxster and the BMW Z3. Handling was racecar-like in its precision - the S2000 was everything that buyers would have expected a new generation Honda sports ...