Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9402 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-14
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Synopsis
From the Austin Allegro to the Renault Safrane, and from the MGB to the Volkswagen Beetle, this book brings together 50 of the worst cars ever to grace the roads of Britain. The book features everything from the aesthetically pathetic to the mechanically misguided and includes tales of the most bizarre and appalling cock-ups in motoring history. With full-colour photos to illustrate each entry, this chronicle of classically Crap Cars will transport you back to the beige and brown world of the seventies and eighties and your very own Morris Marina.

Customer Reviews

Pithy.
The two things I look for in a book are that they be:
i) funny
ii) short
Crap Cars has each of these attributes in spades, so I loved it. To be honest, it's too short (hence only 4 stars); I read the whole thing in under an hour. But the fact that I read it cover-to-cover in one sitting must tell you something about how entertained I was by it.
It's bleedin' hilarious.

Crap Cars, crap book more like
I agree with a great number of other people that reviewed this book. It's very opionated and not very factual, hardly even funny. Of course people are entitled to their own opinion, but sweeping statements are made without any back-up apart from the fact that the author thinks so.

If you want a much more reasoned opinion "Unsafe at Any Speed" is a far better read.

Laughed til I cried
Had to buy it because I was laughing too much in W.H. Smiths and making a fool of myself. Couldn't believe Beetle came bottom but was so glad my car wasn't mentioned !!