Product Description

The nest is empty; the coffers full; the wife, for one reason or another, looking the other way. Time to chop in that ageing estate car in favour of something fast, noisy, powerful and above all impractical. You feel younger already! Liberated behind that hand-stitched leather steering wheel, there's wind in your hair and lead in your pencil. Yes, you too, are having a Midlife Crisis.

Drawing on a high level of expertise in this area, Top Gear explores the phenomenon of motoring and the midlife crisis, identifying over 50 classics of the genre across four desperate decades. From Ford Capri to Ferrari Testarossa, it celebrates the flashest, fastest and most ridiculous attempts to cover a bald spot, meanwhile offering a profound insight into the complex psychology of a middle-aged man and his quest for eternal youth.

Top Gear's Midlife Crisis Cars both rejoices and recoils at the time-honoured tradition of flushing the children's inheritance on something you're too arthritic to get into in the first place.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18255 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
Matt Master has been a motoring correspondent for five years. He started his career at Auto Express, and moved on to Top Gear magazine three years ago, where he is features writer and road tester. This is his first book.

Customer Reviews

Predictable
I normally love Top Gear books, but this is just yet another book bashing and moaning about cars that lots of people love.

Incorrect facts and heresay abound.

Some of the cars slated have been highly rated by Clarkson in the past, but then, this book is not written by the 'proper' guys either.

Yawn....
I have to agree, the car reviews in the book are meaningless, unresearched claptrap. The book reads as if it was written in an afternoon over a pint and it's not funny unless your 12. It's more about taking the piss out of people. Cheap shots and cynical.

Has this person even driven
Obviously he has never driven half the cars he has put down, if this was the case they wouldn't of written such rubbish.