It was brash and it was loud - the 1980s put paid to the glumness of the '70s and nowhere was that more obvious than in the cars we drove, which took a quantum leap in durability, performance, equipment and style. They had to: Japanese quality and European design were luring away ever more customers. Features such as fuel injection, turbochargers, computer-controlled systems and four-wheel drive became commonplace. This was also the decade that brought us the people-carrier and the off-roader, new classes of car that radically reshaped family transport. Meanwhile, seatbelt-wearing became law, the M25 opened, speed cameras appeared and ram-raiding was the new motoring nemesis. Relive everything car-related in Britain in the 1980s with Giles Chapman.
| ISBN: | 9780750958455 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2014 |
| Author: | Giles Chapman |
| Publisher: | The History Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Cars We Loved |
| Genres: |
Motor cars: general interest Nostalgia: general Miscellanies and compendia Road and motor vehicles: general interest History and Archaeology |