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As exceptional and as rare as the new BMW lightweight sports car M3 CSL,
has emerged a book about this feat of technical engineering which will
arouse your curiosity by simply looking at its title: F = m x a.
This world-famous formula of the British physicist Isaac Newton which describes
the power-to-weight ratio has given its name to this automotive textbook.
Because it is exactly this ideology according to which at BMW M, a noble
subsidiary
of the famous Munich automobile brand, a vehicle was developed
by experts for connoisseurs, totalling only approximately 1400 units – a
tidbit of highly committed automobile design.
On approximately 230 pages, Friedbert Holz, full-time press spokesman of
this company, describes the story of the beginnings of this automobile,
giving a detailed account of a breathtaking ride through the legendary
Nordschleife, the Northern Loop of the Nürburgring race track at the
side of the Head of Development, as well as introducing all the people
who were involved in this project. But what would these texts be without
the brilliant photographs taken by Walter Wilbert, an automobile fan from
his earliest youth, with an especially good eye for very special moments.
He has captured moments of working and driving which are unique, he portrays
people and the technology around them in an inimitable style, making every
double page a photographic work of art, an optical and haptical delight.
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This team of automobile enthusiasts has opened the gates to strictly guarded
test tracks for the reader, has accompanied engineers at their fascinating
work for days, has watched human beings and materials on the frontiers of modern
science. But they also describe the object of desire in detail, outline its
development in the wind tunnel and look back on its history. Their work is
rounded off with all the technical data that were available from the factory.
It goes without saying that the presentation of this specialised
book satisfies even the greatest demands, from the quality of the
paper to the layout which
was drawn with a lot of emotion, and again to the attractive landscape format. |
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