Product Description

Did you know that Jasons and Tracys crash more cars than Jacquelines and Damons? Or that a boomerang can be used to repair a knackered clutch? Have you ever wanted to visit a naked car show, wondered what it's like to drive on the world's most dangerous road, or receive the world's most expensive speeding ticket? Want to read about flying cars, amphibious cars, or atomic cars? What about the Accord that can actually strike a chord, or the love car park? Dip inside to final all these plus stacks of other stuff, including cars in films, cars on TV, and cars in songs - even cars as coffins. This is a car book like no other. It's full of the strangest stories, fascinating facts and spectacular stats - a must for any car nut.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70595 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

motorbar.co.uk October 2006
Forget Playstation this Christmas: amuse yourself with Top Gear
Motor Mania

Excerpted from "Top Gear, Motor Mania" by Ivan Berg, Nik Berg. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
INTRODUCTION
This book will not help you choose your next car. It won't help you fix
your current one. It's not an encyclopaedia. In fact it's of very little
practical value at all. Instead it's distracting, diverting, amusing,
annoying, entertaining and unforgettable. Inside you'll find the first
traffic jam caused by jam, the only nude car show and the best car to
attend it in (the Daihatsu Naked), the best ways to cook roadkill and the
Bumper Dumper you'll inevitably need afterwards. You'll meet the man who
made an orchestra from an Accord, the worst Formula One drivers, the
African dictator turned
car designer and the drugs baron with a car addiction. We've got flying
cars, clockwork cars, atomic cars and 2CVs turned into speedboats. Enough
facts, stats and stories to fill your trivia tank. If this book were a car
it'd be a Mazda MX-5 - small, completely impractical, but big fun and until
it came along nobody knew they wanted it.

Top Gear Motor Mania

Contents

One: Life in the Fast Lane ........
Eating, sleeping, shagging - you know, all the stuff people do in their
cars when they're not actually driving

Two: Any colour so long as it's black ........
History is bunk. And we do like a bit of bunk

Three: Motorworld ........
The driving habits of Johnny Foreigner

Four: Pop Idle ........
Geddit? Motor Music maestro please

Five: Screen Machines ........
Stars in cars, cars as stars. Even the odd OsCAR

Six: Police Stop! ........
Speeding and thieving. Look out for the flashing blue lights

Seven: Wacky Racers ........
The fast and the furious... from Formula None to Formula One

Eight: Vorsprung Durch Technik
How to get ahead in advertising - or not

Nine: Beetlemania ........
The cult cars we fell in love with

Ten: Flying Cars and Superhighways ........
Forwards and back to the future of motoring

Customer Reviews

A must for Xmas
Well researched, unique, amusing, very readable and full of interesting pictures. I particularly liked A Brief History of Firsts. Full of facts to bore your friends in the pub. The hardback and attractive presentation means it will have a long shelf life. A must for car maniacs and a very usefull stocking filler this Xmas.

Motor Mania......A Fun Read
Looking for a present for your Dad this Christmas?
Well this one will keep him amused over the festive period. Even if he is not a Motor Maniac like me, he will still enjoy this fab little book.
Well done to the authors who must of put many hours into researching all the wacky,weird and wonderful facts.
A must have stocking filler! (Maybe Mum might enjoy it too!)

Car Bizarre
Car Culture fascinates - even if you rarely use one, know their cost and have been run over by one (eg yours truly!).

That something of the Gunslinger in every driver - and the extraordinary things Man has done to make the Car faster or more beautiful, efficient, wasteful etc. (never mind turning them into Baths, Orchestras or Myths) is wittily distilled into a very funny manual of the 4-wheeled bizarre.

Bone up on the book so you can out-talk car nut friends, trump their anecdotes and generally annoy them; alternatively dip into it at leisure because it is simply a very funny and very wide portrait of Us and the Car.