In recent weeks, dozens of books have appeared in bookstores.
The proof that the automotive subject continues to fascinate.
A few hours from the Christmas festivities, here is a selection of books that deserve to be found under the Christmas tree.
Our selection of books on cars and motorcycles
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The Automotive Year 2022-2023
It is the oldest collection in automotive history.
She blows out her 70 candles.
L'Année Automobile is not a book, it's a bible.
Directed by historian Serge Bellu and written by recognized experts in the automotive sector, this high-quality work reviews all the events of the past year and the highlights in terms of industry, sport, culture and heritage.
A retrospective put into perspective and brilliantly illustrated.
All new models and concept cars of 2022 are presented.
Incredibly rich, the Automotive Year is as much a trace for future generations as a working document that deserves a special place in the library of a car enthusiast.
Sophia Editions.
Price: €69.
Cars of always
After exceptional cars, our colleague Nicolas Meunier is interested in popular cars and puts them in their context.
From the Volkswagen Beetle to the Fiat Palio, passing to the Fiat 500, the Trabant, the Ford T, the Austin Mini and the Citroën 2 CV to name but a few, the author pays tribute to these models mass distribution that have marked the history of the automobile.
Hugo Image, €29.95.
Audi RS
The story of the sports RS models of the Quattro GmdH division is now available in French.
Journalist Constantin Bergander takes us through a story that began in 1994 with the RS2 station wagon developed and produced by Porsche.
Edition Sophia, €59.
Porsche Boxster and Cayman
Did you miss the first edition?
Yours truly went back to his desk to write a new edition enriched with the latest developments in the Boxster-Cayman range, starting with the Cayman GT4 RS and the prototypes of the future electric 718.
Edition Sophia, €49.
Citroen DS
Already the author of several books on Citroën, including the one on the brand's 100th anniversary which won an award at the 2020 Festival de l'Automobile, and on the DS in particular, Serge Bellu is interested this time in the role played by the avant-garde sedan. chevrons in multiple sectors of the economy and culture through numerous anecdotes and stories.
Editions Glénat, €35.50.
The first crossing of the Sahara by car
A hundred years already!
On December 17, 1922, André Citroën launched a flotilla of half-tracks on the camel tracks of Timbuktu.
For the first time, cars leaving Algeria reach the banks of the Niger at Timbuktu.
This book looks back on this heroic raid in fifteen stages and twenty-one days which made it possible to discover the heart of Africa.
Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil has brought together unpublished documents taken from the rich archives bequeathed by her father, who was one of the pioneers of the exploration of the Sahara.
Editions Glénat, €35.50.
Quintessential Porsche
In a large-format book, (re)discover 60 models that have helped shape the history of the German sports car brand: from the Porsche 959, to the 935, victorious at Le Mans, through the different versions of 911 , SUVs and mid-rear engine two-seaters.
Glénat Edition, €45.
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70' Motorcycles
Nostalgia sequence.
This is a book aimed primarily at boomers, those children born after the Second World War.
They were around twenty years old when the Honda 750 Four, Triumph Bonneville, Norton Commando, BMW, Harley-Davidson, Kawasaki 750 H2 appeared.
This book awakens memories of those 1970s when everything was still possible.
Sophia Editions, €45.
Legendary retro cars
Forty years of automobiles, from the 1940s to the 1980s. Forty years of innovation, technical progress, stylistic evolution and performance.
The model is a bit messy but we enjoy turning the pages of history.
Editions Larousse, €39.95.
In all directions, circulate, share, secure.
A history of road equipment
Individual mobility and the automobile is also the history of the road, of traffic routes and the adventure of road developments.
Historian and lecturer at the University of Paris 1, specialist in mobility, Mathieu Flonneau brings us back to the beginnings of the early 20th century up to the contemporary demands of a shared road.
Must read.
Editions Loubatières, €25.
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Our selection of motorsport books
Car Racing by Cercle d'Art editions.
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Already collectors.
These are not books but works of art that have their place on the coffee table in the living room.
Under the impetus of Richard Mille, the DPPI photo agency has drawn on the treasures of the archives of photographer Manou Zurini to concoct, mainly with journalist Johnny Rives, the collection of Car Racing books.
An oh so exciting way to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of car racing in the sixties where photographers could approach cars on the edge of the track and where sport was still a good child.
Cercle d'Art editions have just released the fifth opus dedicated to the year 1969, a season marked by Jacky Ickx's first victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and by Jackie Stewart's Formula 1 title in a Matra with a Ford Cosworth engine. .
Editions Circle of Art, 129 euros.
70 years of motorsport in France
Fascinating!
Who better than our colleague Stéphane Barbé, who has followed national and international motorsport for 40 years for the daily newspaper L'Equipe, could tell us the great history of motorsport in France since the creation of the French Motorsport Federation.
Throughout the pages, we discover that France has always shone at the top of motorsport, through talented drivers but also renowned manufacturers and talented craftsmen.
Hugo Sports, €39.95.
24 Hours of Le Mans, 100 years of legend
Relive through the pages and several hundred photos from the archives of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, the joys, the sorrows and the great hours of the most prestigious endurance event in the world born in 1923. Gründ, 49 €.95.
24 Hours of Le Mans 2022
Like every year, the 2022 edition of the two Sarthois clock towers is entitled to its book.
An essential bible for model makers and enthusiasts of the Le Mans event, this book makes it possible not to miss anything of the course of the 90th edition won by Toyota.
List of entries, portrait of the pilots, regulations: everything is scrutinized.
Editions Sophia, €49.
Weekend in Monaco 1962 and Rouen 1968
The initiative of the Coco-B publishing house deserves to be welcomed and encouraged.
Led by a team of enthusiasts, this house goes off the beaten track by immersing us in grand prix weekends that have marked the history of motorsport.
This new collection begins with two grand prizes: Monaco 1962 and Rouen 1968. Through unpublished photos of young and apprentice photographers and original texts by Patrice Moinet (Rouen) and Dominique Vincent (Monaco), the reader immerses himself in the atmosphere of meeting combining side races and Grand Prix.
You can feel the tension rising as the F1 race gets closer.
The Monaco Grand Prix was won by Bruce McLaren's Cooper Climax;
Rouen by the Ferrari of Jacky Ickx.
Under the rain,
the Normandy event was marked by the fatal accident of Jo Schlesser on the Honda F1.
Coco-B Editions, €49.90.
Formula 1, my family
His familiar face and voice accompanied the Sundays of tens of thousands of Formula 1 enthusiasts for several decades. Reporter journalist Jean-Louis Moncet commented on Formula 1 for several decades.
Now retired, he makes us relive his career through multiple anecdotes and depicts the personality of the drivers and players in the flagship discipline of motorsport.
Editions City, €18.90.
Formula 1
A new expanded edition of the 2022 racing season and Max Verstappen's second title.
A 480-page book that deserves its place in the library of F1 enthusiasts.
Since its creation in 1950, the F1 world championship has been scrutinized by Peter Nygaard.
Editions Glénat, €59.95.
Ferrari - Maserati, the duel
For ten years, mainly in the 1950s, in Sport but also in F1, the two Italian sports car brands waged a merciless battle on all circuits around the world.
A struggle for prestige as told to us by the historian Serge Bellu.
Exciting.
Editions Glénat, €45.