Car Wars: Fifty Years of Backstabbing, Infighting, And Industrial Espionage in the Global Market

By Jonathan Mantle

Book Overview

Ferdinand Porsche, widely revered as the inventor of the VW Beetle, stole the plans for the people's car from a Czech designer with Hitler's help. General Motors manufactured jet engines for Hitler's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559704004
• ISBN13: 9781559704007
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A must-read look behind the scenes for the car enthusiast.

On 1997-08-12, this book came in, I had dinner and when I put out the light it was beyond 1 a.m. Hadn't done that in a while - finished it all. "I didn't know that!" kept me reading. Amazing under-cover stories complete with references. Another piece in the puzzle why we still pollute the planet with our chemical engines. Read this again every 5 years (I hope it will be updated).