Vehicle Performance. The Fundamentals of Predicting and Optimising the Performance of Road, Off-Road and Race Vehicles

Performance is central to all aspects of vehicle design, from concept to final manufacture and vehicle set-up. It is key skill for all engineers, whether working on mass manufactured automobiles, highly specified racing cars, heavy commercial vehicles or agricultural machinery. This book provides automotive engineers with the detailed understanding of each aspect of performance, the methods used to calculate and optimise that performance and how each separate performance factor combines at the whole vehicle level.