Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, cooper, mini
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845841832
ISBN-13: 9781845841836

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.  The works Minis not only won the Monte Carlo three times – 1964, 1965 and 1967 – along with the European Rally Championship in 1965, but also won events all

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, rs1800, escort, ford
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845841409
ISBN-13: 9781845841409

Escort RS1800 (Escort Mk II) : This is a Rally Giant because it was consistently the fastest, the most successful and the most versatile car in the second half of the 1970s. Developed from the Mk I, it was a conventional front engine/rear drive machine, which rallied with 2-litre engines of up to 270bhp. Rally successes were legendary - British (RAC), Safari, Acropolis, Finland (1000 Lakes), Sweden, Portugal, Canada - and  more and more. They won 17 World Rallies between 1975 and 1981. RS1800s won the World Makes Championship in 1979, and were always close to victory, and always competitive.

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, stratos, lancia
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845840410
ISBN-13: 9781845840419

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. Written by a world renowned motoring historian and heavily illustrated, this is a key work of this subject.

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, t16, peugeot
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-08-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845841298
ISBN-13: 9781845841294

Four-wheel-drive was authorized 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. It was the first truly great, purpose-designed, Group B car. Determined to win at almost any cost, Peugeot hired Jean Todt (who would later transform the fortunes of the Ferrari F1 organization) i

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Crowood
Keywords: coupã©s, sports, romeo, alfa
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-12
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1861265077
ISBN-13: 9781861265074

Since the 1930s the Alfa tradition of sporting coup233s has been as strong as that of their incomparable open cars. But the coup233s, while sometimes overlooked, have arguably been even finer cars than open-topped siblings and they have certainly had more than their fair share of success in competition. This new book, by well-known motoring writer Graham Robson, looks at the classic pedigree of Alfa coup233s, from the Giulietta in 1954 to the end of Alfasud Sprint and Alfetta production in the 1980s. Well-illustrated and including comprehensive specification tables and copious information on

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: giants, rally, impreza, subaru
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845840429
ISBN-13: 9781845840426

This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s. Forged in the fierce heat of WRC (World Rally Championship) competition and honed by years of continuous development, the Subaru Impreza is not only one of the greatest rally cars of all time, but has also become one of the most desirable high-performance road cars, too. This book provides a compact and authoritative history of where, when, and how it became so important to the sport.

Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: Veloce
Keywords: rally, giants, integrale, 4x4, delta, lancia
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845842588
ISBN-13: 9781845842581

 This book explains how the HF 4WD evolved over the years – first into the Integrale with its original 8-valve engine, then the Integrale 16V, and ultimately into the Integrale 16V Evo 1 (or ’Deltona’, as it was affectionately known). This compact, five-door Lancia dominated world-class rallying for six years, winning innumerable events, World Championships for Drivers, and World Championships for Manufacturers. Alongside the cars, driving heroes such as Markku Alan, Didier Auriol, Miki Biasion, Juha Kankkunen and Carlos Sainz also became legendary in this period.