Jalopnik Book Reviews

For a while now, I had been looking for an angle to tell the story of Rene Dreyfus, the Jewish racer driving for…

LJK Setright’s last book is 400 pages of dense, hyper-erudite British prose about cars and humans and the ways we’ve…

In April 1947, two wild and crazy Czechs set off from Prague in a Tatra 87 and drove 40,000 miles across Africa and…

The entire review of this coffee-table NASCAR history book might as well be boiled down to the staggering power of a…

Veloce Today's Pete Vack recently took a look at Griff Borgeson's The Classic Twin Cam Engine, a dive into the…

Pete Vack of Veloce Today wrote this compelling summary of one of the coolest books written about Alfa Romeos. We…

As author Jason Vuic points out in The Yugo's introduction, the Yugo wasn't really the worst car in history. How did…

Every so often, a book comes along that redefines your notion of literature. The Worst-Case Scenario: Cars is not…

I keep meaning to review a couple of books that every car freak should read (Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed and…

This first words in this book come from the pen of Mario Andretti: "Paul Newman was one of us."

You know how a lot of marque-specific car books tend to be a bit on the lightweight side? A couple of anecdotes…

I've been letting the titles stack up in the Jalopnik Book Review On-Deck Circle- including a really intimidating…

We've seen a worshipful GTO history book in this series, and now we're going to look at a book by the brilliant…

When this monstrous volume showed up at Chez Murilee- and this is one freakin' huge slab-o-musclecar-porn,…

For those of you who like to get your 90-weight-coated paws on some car-themed reading material, we're continuing…

Whether you're wrenching on a flying Spitfire or a leaking Spitfire, Haynes has a shop manual for you. Very useful,…

If you're one of those weirdo intellectual gearheads who reads books, we're not going to give you the…

The mating call of the TVR owner? "I'd love to, but let's use your car." 24 Hours Of Lemons Chief Perpetrator has…

I've been hearing a lot about Kerouac's On The Road lately, and even though I think it's a pretty weak novel- don't…