Speed Read Car Design: The History, Principles and Concepts Behind Modern Car Design (Volume 2) (Speed Read, 2) Paperback – December 5, 2017

A quick moving synopsis of all things automotive, from the early 1900's through tomorrowHighly recommended for the novices and auto wannabees's🚗

I liked the information the author gave and the illustrations. What I didn't like was the way the author wrote the technical details of car design and cars that I had not heard of.

A concise history of the most important and innovative players in car design.

Item well described; Excellent packing and fast shipping, recommended dealer!

Speed Read Car Design is a lovely, no-nonsense, no extraneous fluff, information book that gives readers the history and concept of modern car design. The book is broken up into seven easily digestible sections (think chapters) starting with The Birth Of Car Design then moving quickly into a Century of Changing Shapes, then into Innovation, The Elements of Style, and then into Engineering, Interiors and Space. It then takes on The Creative Process and closes with What Comes Next, which as the title suggests is the future of car design. Each subsection with in the section has relevant and beautifully clean matte “old school” illustrations and each section ends with a topic glossary- which as a word nerd I absolutely adore. I admit that my favorite sections personally of car design is the Creative process- specifically the subsection “The Step-by-Step of Car Design” which literally breaks up the entire process of modern car design into six steps. I also rather enjoyed perusing both the subsections “Techniques and Tools” subsection which goes briefly into specific modeling tools used in the process of car design and the subsection on “Fashion, fads and Corporate Styles” which details the specific designs and styles that are expected by certain auto manufacturers. I love the textbook quality to this series and this book did not disappoint.

More like a kids book about cars than serious adult reading. Very disappointed. Glad I only bought one of the books in this series.

Really disappointed, I wanted a book about car design and this although it had pretty pictures was not an instructional book.

I am not a car enthusiast. I bought this for my younger brother (9) who is really into cars right now. But even I have been learning a lot and enjoying this book. I read it to him because it would be too much for him to take in on his own. Even so, we have to do googling to look at the images of the cars described to get a better understanding of what is being explained. Some ideas still go over my head but maybe it's just the way I am and my cluelessness about cars in general. The design of the book is cool too. One page of an illustration that catches the eye and one page of writing.