Crap Cars
by Richard Porter
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Fifty of the most craptastic cars ever to hit the American highway: this book is a window into the vanity and silliness of almost any decade as expressed through that ultimate status symbol: your car. Traveling from the '60s to the '90s, it showcases the cheapest, the tackiest, and the mechanically inept, including cars made by companies like Porsche and BMW that put them to shame. There's also the blobby Merkur Scorpio, the ungainly Rolls-Royce Camargue, the squarish Maserati Biturbo, and show more the (ironically) flammable Renault Fuego. Each photo spread is accompanied by a short critique by Richard Porter, a crap car expert, who sees straight through all the pimped-out bodywork to the true lemon that lies underneath. This book is for anyone who loves cars or the casualties of bad taste. show lessTags
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Rarely has a book been more perfectly titled than Richard Porter's "Crap Cars" (Bloomsbury, $15). The 50 cars featured each date back to their own horribly sad chapter in automotive history. Some are gone forever, some are still morosely chugging down the road, but none of them escape Porter's hilarious skewerings.
And deservedly so. The Nissan NX (No. 44) had interchangeable rear ends. The Chrysler Imperial (No. 35) was randomly dotted with so much chrome that it looks "as if it had been attacked by a toddler with an electrolysis kit." The Subaru XT (No. 30) offered all-wheel drive that worked only when the windshield wipers were on.
Not only cheap cars come in for teasing here. Hummers, Aston Martins, Maseratis, Jags — it show more seems even the luxury car-makers have a skeleton or two in their garages. Fans of a particular make and model can wail in protest — was the Volkswagen Beetle really deserving of the No. 5 spot? — but Porter shows no mercy. Bring this slim book on a road trip — the passenger can read it out loud to the driver, and in between howls of laughter, you can make a game out of spotting Crap Cars as you fly on past them. The car-crazed and the bus riders alone will cherish this little treasure.
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Rarely has a book been more perfectly titled than Richard Porter's "Crap Cars" (Bloomsbury, $15). The 50 cars featured each date back to their own horribly sad chapter in automotive history. Some are gone forever, some are still morosely chugging down the road, but none of them escape Porter's hilarious skewerings.
And deservedly so. The Nissan NX (No. 44) had interchangeable rear ends. The Chrysler Imperial (No. 35) was randomly dotted with so much chrome that it looks "as if it had been attacked by a toddler with an electrolysis kit." The Subaru XT (No. 30) offered all-wheel drive that worked only when the windshield wipers were on.
Not only cheap cars come in for teasing here. Hummers, Aston Martins, Maseratis, Jags — it show more seems even the luxury car-makers have a skeleton or two in their garages. Fans of a particular make and model can wail in protest — was the Volkswagen Beetle really deserving of the No. 5 spot? — but Porter shows no mercy. Bring this slim book on a road trip — the passenger can read it out loud to the driver, and in between howls of laughter, you can make a game out of spotting Crap Cars as you fly on past them. The car-crazed and the bus riders alone will cherish this little treasure.
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Hilariously funny. My favorite page was the one about the Suzuki Samurai.
50 worst cars ever, in author's opinion. Great gift book but make sure your giftee doesn't love one of these cars first.
OMG ! i have had threee of the crappiest cars ever
Funny read if you don't own or have owned any of the buggers
Funny read if you don't own or have owned any of the buggers
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