📚 Automobiles & Cars

The car as machine, industry and culture — its engineering and its models, and the way private engines on four wheels rebuilt every city.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject automobiles in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	My life and work	Ford, Henry	1922	166
	Automotive Technician Training	Tom Denton	2010	31
	Automotive Technology	Jack Erjavec	1992	21
	SAE handbook	Society of Automotive Engineers	1973	18
	Auto Repair for Dummies	Deanna Sclar	1976	13
	Modern automotive technology	Duffy, James E.	1993	13
	Automotive mechanics	Crouse, William Harry	1946	10
	Auto mechanics fundamentals	Martin W. Stockel	1963	9
	Unsafe at any speed	Ralph Nader	1965	9
	Automotive engine performance	James D. Halderman	2003	9
	Auto repair for dummies	Deanna Sclar	1976	8
	Customers for life	Carl Sewell	1990	8
	Car	Richard Sutton	1990	8
	Automotive Engines	James D. Halderman	1996	8
	How to Build a Car	Adrian Newey	2017	8
	Go like hell	A. J. Baime	2009	7
	High-speed combustion engines	Peter Martin Heldt	1939	6
	Automotive fundamentals	Frederick C. Nash	1965	6
	Competition Car Suspension	Allan Staniforth	1988	6
	Auto fundamentals	Martin W. Stockel	1996	5
	Analysis techniques for racecar data acquisition	Jorge Segers	2008	5
	The scientific design of exhaust and intake systems	Philip Hubert Smith	1962	4
	Traffic	Tom Vanderbilt	2008	4
	How to Drive	Ben Collins	2012	4
	How cars work	Tom Newton	1999	2
	World history of the automobile	Erik Eckermann	2001	2
	Unsafe at any speed	Ralph Nader	1965	1
	AA book of the car	Automobile Association (Great Britain)	1976	1
	Chassis engineering	Herb Adams	1993	1
	Pontiac GTO restoration guide, 1964-1972	Paul Zazarine	1995	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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