Today I have been working on the cover. This is the provisional one:
I have also been writing the back cover blurb. My provisional one:
Covering every decade from the 1920s until now, this book reveals an incredible array of fascinating and advanced aerodynamic car designs - cars shaped to cheat the wind or stick to the road.
From the low-drag cars of 1930s Germany to the winged Plymouth Superbird in the US. From the first Mazda RX-7 to Tesla’s extraordinary Model S and the Corvette C7 ZR1.
Meet an automotive inventor so weird he’d taken a vow of silence and had to communicate by writing notes…. discover one of the lowest-drag cooling systems ever used in a production car…. understand the aerodynamics of some of the fastest cars ever…. and see how the science and art of car aerodynamics have progressed over the last 100 years.
Written with the full cooperation of car aerodynamicists from Porsche, Tesla, General Motors and Volkswagen, the coverage is detailed and accurate. Over 60 individual cars are described – from the tiny Fiat Uno to the mighty Bluebird Land Speed Record car.
Learn about the development of wings and spoilers, the Kamm tail and today’s low-drag electric cars. Be astonished how some cars over 80 years old have better aerodynamic figures than many current cars.
See rare concept cars from Mercedes, Ford and Chrysler.
Researched on three continents and containing more than 450 photographs, diagrams and graphs, this book will forever change how you view car aerodynamics.