500 Fantastic Cars: A Century of the World Concept Cars

by Serge Bellu

From technologically stunning machines to the plain weird and wonderful, this illustrated book reveals 500 of the most striking and innovative prototype cars produced by car manufacturers and independent designers.

Here is a pictorial insight into how the motor industry strives to predict, and indeed shape, the future, while reflecting contemporary moods and fashions. Concept cars covered in the book span nearly 100 years of automotive history from the 1914 Alfa Romeo 40-60HP aerodynamic concept by Castagna to the stunning modern-day designs that appeared at the 2002 Geneva Salon and Detroit Motor Show.

The book
• Brief descriptions and specifications and a photograph for each of the 500 beautiful and bizarre concepts
• A panoramic vision of many of the prototypes developed during the first half of the 20th century up to 1952
• A selection of eight significant models a year, from 1952, chosen at random
• An in-depth look at a particular project that captured the mood of the day, for every other year from 1952 to 2002

128 pages, Hardcover

First published February 13, 2004

Reviews

[Brandon Prager · Rating 2 out of 5]

honestly this book wasnt too interesting to me because all it did was talk about how much horse power it had and i honestly wanted to learn about cars. but other than that is was okay because it had some good information in it. the picture are good though because im sure it was hard to find pictures of them cars.other than that i found it boring.