Cars

A car is a wheeled, self-powered motor vehicle used for transportation and a product of the automotive industry. Most definitions of the term specify that cars are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels with tyres, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car. In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars did not become widely available until the early 20th century. One of the first cars that was a ...more

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
Surviving to Drive
Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1
The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris―The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
Bluff (Stacked Deck, #6)
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership: Uncomplicating Cars for All of Us
Little Fox and the Wild Imagination
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Racing in the Dark: How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans
A Letter for Bob: An Award-Winning Indigenous Picture Book About Family and Memories for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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How To Build A Car
How Cars Work
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
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Christine
If I Built a Car (If I Built Series)
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My Car: A Wonderful Story About Vehicles, Colors, Shapes, and Community for Preschoolers
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Sounds
668 books — 51 voters
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Retrofuturism (nonfiction)
30 books — 7 voters

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Sports Romances: Auto racing
154 books — 31 voters
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It's not a car -- it's a book!
165 books — 25 voters


Bauvard
Like a valet who commits grand theft auto not to go for a joy ride but to open a used car lot, so do we seize upon love not to revel in its ecstasies but to haggle over its blue-book value.
Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching my car in the mirror. You were trying to say something so, I jumped on the brakes as hard as I could, I guess I forgot I had tied your bike on my bumper.
Georgia Saratsioti, Dreaming is for lovers

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