Car Wars: Fifty Years of Greed, Treachery, and Skulduggery in the Global MarketplaceArcade Publishing, 1995 - 253 頁 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 army, then got $33 million in tax exemptions from the U.S. government for damages sustained by Allied bombing of its German factories. Packed with these and other tales of greed and treachery, Car Wars is a must-read lesson in industrial strategy and a fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of the world's best-known automobiles. |
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The Dictator in the Drivers Seat | 3 |
Samurai into Sedans | 21 |
Agnelli FIAT and the Cinquecento | 28 |
A Very British Peoples Car | 36 |
An American in Europe | 43 |
De Gaulle and The Goddess | 54 |
BMW and the Pride of Bavaria | 60 |
The Men in Motown | 75 |
Toyota Mazda Datsun and | 123 |
The Coming of Age | 132 |
Trabant and Zil in | 143 |
The End of History and the Beginning | 149 |
General | 156 |
The Catwalk | 162 |
How the Rise of Japan and the Fall of | 172 |
The Empire | 181 |
Snapshots from the Suicide of | 81 |
The Last of the Line Leaves Wolfsburg | 90 |
The Coming of Age of the Samurai Sedan | 102 |
Mercedes | 109 |
Internal | 116 |
The Illegal Traffic in Western | 202 |
The Peoples CarYesterday | 213 |
A Selective AZ of the Worlds | 223 |
Select Bibliography | 235 |
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