Speed & Luxury: The Great Cars

Traveling back over 100 years of automotive history, this book brings to dazzling life the dawning age of the automobile-a time when the early promise of personal transportation inspired great feats of design and engineering, resulting in some of the most remarkable vehicles the world would ever know. In hundreds of fabulous photographs and interviews with legendary designers, the story of the automobiles first half-century unfolds on two continents, as automakers and coachbuilders-including Cadillac and Chrysler, Duesenberg, Stutz, and Packard, Bentley and Rolls-Royce, Bugattis and Alfa Romeos, Delahayes, Delage, Murphy, and Saoutchik-create rolling works of art for the worlds wealthiest and most powerful figures.