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: #9858 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Synopsis
Following up on "Crap Cars" and "My Dad Had One of Those", for Father's Day 2008 "Top Gear" celebrates the midlife crisis with the definitive collection of the flashest, fastest, most impractical cars ever to be found in the driveways of otherwise perfectly sensible men. Drawing on the 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.

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

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.

Don't bother!!!
Absolute garbage, wouldn't waste money on a book that the author seems to know sod all about!!!

A very funny book
I bought this for my dad and thought it was hilarious. Some of the photos, which look like the original ads from the last 40 years, are brilliantly macho - lots of average-looking men with beautiful women draped over their cars on the beach, on a private landing strip,in the middle of a field(why?!). I particularly liked the man parked at a stables in riding gear putting a saddle into his carboot - can he fit the horse in there too? I thought it was a funny, nostalgic trip for the generation who aspired to own these cars when it was cool to wear brown and orange together or who fancied themselves as an all action stud and wanted to drive a bond-girl magnet, but had a family of four to fit on the back seat. Ha ha ha!