Fordlandia by Greg Grandin (Icon)

Very much the thinking man’s car book, Greg Grandin explores a much overlooked chapter in Henry Ford’s life. In 1927, the man responsible for the Model T bought a big plot of land in Brazil, and set about creating the perfect community. It helped, of course, that it also appeared to be the perfect place to grow the rubber tree - but Ford genuinely had a dream of a socially-engineered, industrial utopia. Grandin nails it for the folly it was - Ford attempted to build a car made of soya here - but there’s real insight into the idealism that drove the man who made the motor car a commodity rather than a luxury.
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