Beautiful Machines

About this book

Start your engines for a grand tour of the most stylish grand motoring automobiles ever created. Evoking an era when elegance romance and outright performance defined the automobileand the fascinating stories that made them icons of the road. From the shark-inspired Maserati Ghibli to the fiery Lamborghini Miura from European elegance with American firepower such as the Iso Grifo and Facel Vega to the groundbreaking designs of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and Renault Alpine and the advanced technology behind the Jensen FF or Porsche 918 Spyderthese cars are less transportation and more testaments to beauty freedom ambition innovation and speed. Beautiful Machines was conceived and edited by gestalten. The stories are written by automobile expert Blake Z. Rong with a preface by Classic Drivers Jan Baedeker and gestaltens Robert Klanten.