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		Audi Quattro - The Rally History Author John Davenport, a former rally co-driver and team manager, experienced that era at first hand and narrates - rally by rally - the complete history of the Audi Quattro. How four-wheel-drive revolutionized the rally world, how Michèle Mouton put the fear of God into manhood, and how Walter Röhrl made himself immortal in the Sport Quattro E2. The world-famous rally photographer Reinhard Klein followed the Quattro revolution around the globe and captured the mood of those days in an unforgettable way. In this high-quality book, he shows his most beautiful - some of them previously unpublished - pictures. A presentation of all the rally cars that Audi has launched - from the Audi 80 to the Quattros and the Coupé S2 - as well as a comprehensive statistics section - make "Audi Quattro - the Rally History" a book that everyone will want on their shelf. Price: £43.99 / €44.43


		Group B – The rise and fall of rallying's wildest cars They were the most exciting cars ever to have graced the international rally scene. To this day, many fans still consider Group B to be the epitome of madness on wheels. This book tells the story of all the cars developed within Group B, from the Quattros to the outstanding Lancias and Peugeots and to the exotic sports cars from Porsche and Mazda. But all the technical development came to a head in the year 1986, when the euphoria somehow turned into an ungovernable risk. The mischief of engineers, politicians and fans led to tragic accidents, which finally resulted in Group B cars being banned from international rallies. Price: £34.99 / €35.34


		Toyota Celica GT-Four (Rally Giants Series) This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the Toyota Celica GT-Four, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport. This is a comprehensive study of the career of the Toyota Celica GT-Four. Starting in 1988, three generations of this effective turbocharged four-wheel-drive car – known by enthusiasts as ST165, ST185 and ST205 types – fought for World Championships, and were amazingly successful for almost a decade. Price: £15.99 / €16.15


		Mini Cooper/Mini Cooper S (Rally Giants Series) This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper in the 1960s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport. This is a comprehensive study of the career of one type of rally car – the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper S. In the 1960s the Mini became famous as Britain’s most successful rally car. It combined superb handling, a tiny body shell, high-performance engines and the excellence of front-wheel-drive in an irresistible package. Not only this, but the works team included famous drivers like Paddy Hopkirk, Timo Makinen and Rauno Aaltonen. Price: £15.99 / €16.15


		Lancia 037 The development & rally history of a world champion The world of rallying was changed forever on January 1st 1982 with the introduction of the new Group B rules. These virtually gave manufacturers carte blanche to design the fastest car they could for world rally special stages, so long as they built at least 200 identical examples. This is the story of Lancia's mid-engined and supercharged rally. The reader is taken from initial thinking about the car and conception, through development to the full history of its rallying lifetime with the help of the car designer and chief engineer, Ing Sergio Limone. Featuring many of Limone's own photographs during development, and interviews with team members. Illustrated with 250 stunning and rare rally action photos. Price: £39.99 / €40.39


		Audi Quattro (Rally Giants Series) The AUDI QUATTRO was the world’s first successful four-wheel-drive rally car. It brought new standards to the sport, and inspired many others to copy it. This is the complete story. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Ford Escort MK2 (Rally Giants Series) The FORD ESCORT MK2 was a worthy successor to the original Mk I, became Ford’s most successful-ever rally car, and cars are still winning historic events today. It brought new standards to the sport, and inspired many others to copy it. With full details of all ‘works’ Escort Mk 2s to go rallying, with driver and personality profiles, and detailed car evolution Price: £14.99 / €15.14
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		Ford Escort RS Cosworth & World Rally Car (Rally Giants Series) The Escort RS Cosworth, which began rallying in 1993, was one of the most ingenious designs of all time, and eventually became Ford's most successful model since the legendary Escorts of the 1970s. The combination of Cosworth power, four-wheel-drive transmission, and an effective aerodynamic package made it a Rally Giant in all conditions, and, until the all-new Focus WRC was launched in 1999, this generation of Escorts was the most effective rally car that Ford had ever produced. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Porsche The Rally Story Porsche Rally History is a subject that any rally fan will find compelling. Written by lifelong Porsche enthusiast, Laurence Meredith, who is an acknowledged authority on the activities of the Zuffenhausen company, the book is a comprehensive study of Porsche's occasional dabble in the world of international rallying. Price: £45.00 / €45.45


		Fiat 131 Abarth (Rally Giants Series) When Fiat entered rallying in 1970, its ultimate aim was to become World Rally Champion – and the 131 Abarth of 1976-1980 provided the machinery to make that possible. It began winning World rallies within months of its launch, and, in 1977, 1978 and 1980, the 'works' team also won the World Championship for Makes, and set every standard by which Rally Giants were to be judged. Was there ever any doubt that successors like the Lancia Rally 037 and the Delta Integrale would come from the same stable? Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Lancia Delta HF Integrale First time available in English! If one car has gained cult status it must surely be the Lancia Delta HF Integrale. It's about time someone compiled its thrilling history and told the story of this thrilling, innovative vehicle. This book covers the cars exceptional Rally success as well as it's appeal as a road car. It provides all the relevant information on the evolution of the 'ordinary Delta' into the powerful, technically complex and aggressive racing machine which consistently won the Rally world championship from 1987 to 1992. 400 spectacular photographs, full Rally results listings and exhaustive technical specifications make this book a must for any Rally fan. Price: £39.99 / €40.39


		Peugeot 205 T16 (Rally Giants Series) Four-wheel-drive was authorised in rallying from 1979, but for a time no serious car-manufacturer even tried to harness it to their cars. Soon, though, it was Audi who produced the world’s first rally-winning four-wheel-drive car – the Quattro. However it was Peugeot who designed, developed, campaigned and won with the first truly sophisticated four-wheel-drive Group B Car – the 205 Turbo 16. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Subaru Impreza (Rally Giants Series) This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Lancia Stratos (Rally Giants Series) This book describes the birth, development and rallying career of the Lancia Stratos, Europe’s very first purpose-built rally car, in the mid/late 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Escort Mk1 (Rally Giants Series) This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the original Ford Escort, one of Europe’s Landmark Rally Cars in the early 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, how and why it became so important to the sport. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Rallying Imprezas The Rallying Imprezas is the story of a gamble that created a cult following. When it made a whole-hearted commitment to international rallying at the end of the 1980s, Subaru was a little-known Japanese car maker with an uncertain future. Its partnership with the British company Prodrive created one of the most formidable rally teams in the sport¹s history, blending Japanese hardware with the experience and raw energy of a team that had already gained prolific success in racing and rallying. Once the Impreza took to the stage, it rapidly earned a string of world championships with drivers such as Richard Burns, Carlos Sainz, Colin McRae and Petter Solberg. Price: £19.99 / €20.19


		Austin Healey 100-Six & 3000 In nine eventful years - 1957 to 1965 – the six-cylinder-engined Austin-Healey evolved into a formidable and increasingly specialised rally car. By any standards, it was the first of the ‘homologation specials’ – a type made progressively stronger, faster, more versatile, and more suitable for the world’s toughest International rallies. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		Subaru Impreza The Subaru Impreza was introduced in 1992, powered by a boxer engine, and with the option of four-wheel drive on certain models; it was also available as an estate. 1994 saw two-door and STi versions join the line-up, although two years later, a new generation was launched. By this time, Subaru was already making an impact on the WRC scene, with the Impreza being the chosen weapon for the company's assault on the series. In 2000, the third generation made its debut, continuing the legend. Foreword by Tashihiro Arai Price: £24.99 / €25.24
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		You & Your Mitsubishi Evo The awesome Mitsubishi Evo is perhaps the ultimate example of a thoroughbred rally car for the road. The no-nonsense, purposeful Evo is derived directly from the all-conquering rally machine that took Tommi Mäkinen to four consecutive World Rally Championship Drivers’ titles in the late 1990s. Never keen to rest on their laurels, Mitsubishi have followed a programme of continual development, which has seen the arrival of the Evo VIII in 2003. This all-colour book covers buying, owning, running and caring for the cars, and charts the full road car and competition history. Price: £17.99 / €18.17


		Lancia Delta Integrale For almost a decade the Lancia Delta integrale dominated World Rallying, and the purposeful white cars with their blue and red Martini stripes epitomized the sport for a generation. But, thanks to homologation requirements, this off road car par excellence was also avalible to buy for use on the public road, and since its introduction it has been one of the most sought-after and exclusive road cars you can buy. Price: £19.95 / €20.15


		Lancia Stratos - Thirty years later The Stratos prototype made its debut in 1970 at the Bertone stand of the Turin Motor Show. It immediately raised curiosity and surprise among the visitors, but a half-hearted interest by the Lancia company. One year later, the new Lancia Stratos was finally produced to comply with the needs of the Lancia Racing Team. The car was completely different, although having the same glamour and appeal, it turned out to be perfect to compete in rallies. For 6 consecutive years it became the car to defeat, winning three World Championships (1974, 1975 and1976). The reader will find the history, the evolution, the competitions as well as the drivers profiles. Price: £29.99 / €30.29


		A Century Of The Fastest Skoda Cars. Limited edition book produced by Skoda Motor Sport to celebrate 100 years in competition. Features the latest WRC Fabia. A must for collectors. Price: £39.99 / €40.39


		The Works Escorts (4th Edition) Here is the complete story of all the Ford Escorts which were rallied and raced by factory teams for more than 30 years. This story started in 1968, and came to a colourful conclusion in 1998, when the Escort was finally supplanted by the equally glamorous Focus WRC. The fully updated fourth edition of this best-selling book includes details of all the 'works' Escort RS Cosworth and Escort WRC cars which won so many world-class events in the 1990s. It also features two all-new colour sections. Price: £25.00 / €25.25
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		Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Definitive history, including world rallying, of Mitsubishi's incredibly successful 'rice rocket' Evolution models from inception to the present. Year-by-year coverage of all production models. Japanese, American, European & Australian markets covered in great detail. 192 artpaper pages and over 250 contemporary pictures, mostly in colour. The author lives in Japan and had full co-operation from Mitsubishi. Price: £29.99 / €30.29


		The Works Triumphs For more than half a century Triumph cars were strong contenders on the international race and rally scene, but their many successes were punctuated by financial crises and changes in company ownership, until the British Leyland axe finally fell just after the 1980 Lombard/RAC Rally. In this classic book, re-issued to meet enthusiast demand, Graham Robson – Triumph co-driver and team manager – recaptures the thrills and problems of those turbulent years. ‘probably the best Triumph motorsport book around’ Classic Car Weekly ‘an extremely extensive study’ Classics Price: £19.99 / €20.19
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		The Works MGs Here is the authoritative story of all the MGs prepared for international competition events with the support of the MG Car Company, ranging from the classic trials of the mid-1920s, pre-war racing and record-breaking, to the post-war achievements of the works cars entered in races and rallies by the BMC Competitions Department. Mike Allison, a technical specialist with MG from 1963 to 1977, is a leading archivist on the pre-war era. Peter Browning, last BMC Competitions Manager, ran MG's post-war programme.'the MG fan will love it' Classics Price: £19.99 / €20.19
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		Racing Lancias. Track Road and Special Stage This book is a celebration of Lancia's 50 glorious years of motor racing history and the cars that created it, including the D50, the only Formula One car the company ever built which, destiny dictated, was not to win the Formula One World Championship until it had been given to Ferrari; the LC2, the Turin manufacturer's sporting masterpiece of the Eighties, and the all-conquering Deltas, winners of so many World Rally Championships. Lancia's sporting pedigree in which the cars are profiled, fully described with detailed technical specifications and illustrated with spectacular colour pictures. Price: £19.99 / €20.19


		Lancia Delta HF Integrale A re-issue of a book first published in 1994 as part of Automobilia's 'Masterpieces' series. Printed in three-language (Italian, French and English) format. It remains a very thorough history of the Integrale, and outlines its development from humble shoppingcar origins to the fire-breather that won six World Rally Championships. In hard cover, 100 pages long and packed with colour photographs and specification tables. This is about the only original source we know of that is devoted purely to the Integrale. Price: £25.00 / €25.25


		Lancia Road Test Book: Lancia Stratos 1972-85 Price: £9.99 / €10.09


		The True Story of Skoda From its origins in the Slavia bicycle company, founded by Laurin and Klement in 1895, to its present position as a vital division of the Volkswagen Group, runs an unbroken line of innovation, engineering excellence and determination in adversity that maintained it in the past and now secures its future. There are those prepared to trot out old jokes and perpetuate old prejudices; those whom reality has passed by. This work has no problem with humour, and brings a good deal to this work, designed to set the record straight. Price: £12.99 / €13.12
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		Subaru Impreza Turbo The rally-bred Subaru Impreza Turbo has become the definitive modern sports saloon, combining four-wheel-drive safety, the capacity to seat four adults, and useable luggage space, in a practical package to rival many pure sports cars. The Impreza is a favourite with driving enthusiasts who want a high-performance car giving everyday practicality. Price: £14.99 / €15.14


		The Audi Quattro Book. The Audi Quattro is possibly the ultimate practical supercar. It offers breathtaking performance from its 200+ bhp turbocharged engine, along with unparalled grip and security of four-wheel drive. The fact that it was always handbuilt on a seperate production line makes it unique among affordable performance cars. Its mystique has been considerably enhanced by the profound effect it has had on the World Rally Championship. Production of the Quattro as a road car ceased in 1991, but the four-wheel drive principle has been carried across Audi's whole range. Price: £16.99 / €17.16


		Porsche 911 Referred to as "The People's Racer" by some, the Porsche 911 is arguably the most-recognized sports and racing car in the world. An alphabet soup of road, race and rally variants are chronicled in this full-colour overview spanning more than 35 years of production from 1964 to present. Complete design, production, and performance details are accompanied by a combination of archival and modern colour photography depicting all these 911s. Also included are details of the 911's motorsport heritage in endurance, rally, hill climb, Trans Am, and GT events. Price: £9.99 / €10.09


		Works Minis This is the full story of how the famous BMC Competitions Department at Abingdon developed the Mini-Minor into a world-beating rally winner during the 1960s. Updated and presented in a larger format, it brings the story right up to date and includes a new chapter on rallycross, plus coverage of classic car rallying where ex-works cars and replicas continue to star. The book examines the technical development of the works Minis from the 850 Mini-Minor to the variants of the Mini-Cooper and the Mini-Cooper "S", including the original works build sheets. It details the official Mini Club Racing Formulae and Championship domination, the 1966 Monte disqualification, and the British Leyland takeover. Price: £16.99 / €17.16

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