Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969 GT cars had tended to be expensive temperamental impractical & rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldnt look stunning & go like a rocket (with the right engine) yet be as easy & cheap to run as a Ford Escort. Little wonder that the slogan they used in 1969 to launch it The car you always promised yourself made an immediate impact. The Capri was a hit from day one & continued to be a British favourite until 1986 at which time it had been somewhat overshadowed by the emergence of the Hot Hatchback. Over its lifetime the Capri was available in a vast array of guises over three distinct Marks but all of them had at their heart affordable fun & a surprising degree of everyday practicality. Nothing has ever quite replaced it but it lives on in the fond imagination of everyone who loved it. ...

Once there was a Cortina on every British street corner but now only a handful of the four million made survive & the rest are fond memories. For 1962 the Cortina was rushed to sale as an economy car but it rocketed to the top of the sales charts & stayed there for 20 years. To mark 50 years since the introduction of Fords best-seller this exhaustively researched history tells how it grew to be a worldwide success. With first-hand accounts from key people & evocative period photography the design & development of all five generations of Cortina is explored in detail. ...

Worldwide No.1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of Americas Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life & crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams & final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pay-dirt to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea Ford County" features a vivid cast of attorneys crooks hustlers & convicts. Through their stories he paints a unique picture of lives lived & lost in Mississippi. Completely gripping frequently moving & always entertaining " Ford County" brims with the same page-turning quality & heart-stopping drama of his previous bestsellers & is proof once more why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller." ...

Escort RS1800 (Escort Mk II): This is a Rally Giant because it was consistently the fastest most successful & most versatile car in the second half of the 1970s. Developed from the Mk I it was a conventional front engine/rear drive machine which rallied with 2-litre engines of up to 270bhp. Rally successes were legendary
- British (RAC) Safari Acropolis Finland (1000 Lakes) Sweden Portugal Canada & many more. The cars won 17 World Rallies between 1975 & 1981. RS1800s won the World Makes Championship in 1979 & were always close to victory always competitive. Escort drivers like Bjorn Waldegard (1979) & Ari Vatanen (1981) won the World Drivers' Championships. Over the years hundreds
- & this is no exaggeration
- of RS1800s were built for motor sport & were the ideal car for almost any condition in the world because they were very powerful but simple & rugged. The RS1800 was also the layout template which was copied by other manufacturers for cars like the Talbot Sunbeam-Lotus the Vauxhall Chevette HSR & the Nissan GTs of the late 1970s/early 1980s which were really all Escort 'clones'. Ford claims & it may be right that RS1800s have won more rallies at World International & National level than any other car in the world.


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Drawing on first-hand experience of what can happen when you rely on basic paperwork & goodwill alone this book offers a unique insight into the would-be problems & pitfalls of buying a 1964-1973 Ford Mustang. Learn the strengths & weaknesses of Mustangs from an author with many years of experience performing ground-up restorations of these iconic cars. Learn what models & variants are on offer & what popular upgrades are commonly performed by owners & their effect on market values. Whether you want a show-car a daily driver or a restoration project all the key points & checks are here ranging from paperwork to market values & from trim to engine condition. This book is the essential companion when looking to buy one of Americas original Pony Cars. ...

In 1964 Ford replaced its separate British & American tractor lines with the new 6X range a worldwide" family of tractors designed for manufacture in Basildon Antwerp & the USA. It marked the beginning of an exciting new period in the history of Ford tractors. The next 30 years saw a host of new models & features as the line expanded & evolved towards the machines of the late 1990s with their computer-age technology. It was also a time during which Fords agricultural business grew into an organization of global proportions taking over both the New Holland & Versatile equipment companies. In 1994 Fiat acquired Fords agricultural machinery interests & merged them with Fiatagri to form a new company under the New Holland name. In the late 1990s New Holland is the leading manufacturer in Europe & many of the Worlds markets. In this book the companion to the first part the author gives an account of all the main Ford & New Holland models as well as the company changes & the personalities involved. It provides a comprehensive resource on this period of tractor history." ...

This new book shares the title of Anthony Pritchards landmark book about the intense rivalry between Ford & Ferrari in the 1960s played out above all at Le Mans. The original book published in 1968 when the battle between these two great marques was still ongoing forms the basis of the new project but with rewritten & much-expanded text to include material that was not available at the time. The engaging text is accompanied by a stunning selection of photographs portraying the two marques in atmospheric detail. ...

In this thoroughly researched & piercingly intelligent book physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets
- that they are for the most part stable with occasional interruptions
- are simply wrong. Markets really act more like weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days or even hours. Forecast re-imagines the basics of the financial world with consequences that affect everyone.

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Economies evolve & are subject to sudden shifts precipitated by legislative changes economic policy major discoveries & political turmoil. Macroeconometric models are a very imperfect tool for forecasting this highly complicated & changing process. Ignoring these factors leads to a wide discrepancy between theory & practice. In their second book on economic forecasting Michael P. Clements & David F. Hendry ask why some practices seem to work empirically despite a lack of formal support from theory. After reviewing the conventional approach to economic forecasting they look at the implications for causal modeling present a taxonomy of forecast errors & delineate the sources of forecast failure. They show that forecast-period shifts in deterministic factors--interacting with model misspecification collinearity & inconsistent estimation--are the dominant source of systematic failure. They then consider various approaches for avoiding systematic forecasting errors including intercept corrections differencing co-breaking & modeling regime shifts; they emphasize the distinction between equilibrium correction (based on cointegration) & error correction (automatically offsetting past errors). Finally they present three applications to test the implications of their framework. Their results on forecasting have wider implications for the conduct of empirical econometric research model formulation the testing of economic hypotheses & model-based policy analyses. ...

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingales life leaving her middle-aged & alone teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brothers family. By one of Americas great living writers Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Beas travails on the continent is a fierce & heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded & abused; earned & cherished; or even lost altogether. ...