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Hardcover The World's Worst Cars : From Pioneering Failures to Multimillion Dollar Distasters Book

ISBN: 0760787131

ISBN13: 9780760787137

The World's Worst Cars : From Pioneering Failures to Multimillion Dollar Distasters

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Book Overview

Cars are a high-interest topic for teens. From design disasters to financial failures to automobile misfits, this book is a fascinating look at the car industry and some of the lemons it has produced throughout history. In a reader-friendly manner, the narrative addresses questions such as: Why did they ever reach the showrooms? What went wrong? Why were they so unreliable, and what kind of people actually bought these cars? This description may be...

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Customer Reviews

6 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Irresistable Reading; Amazing and Pathetic Tales

I picked this up at a book store on the bargain table. When I was still flipping through the pages 10 minutes later, I knew I had to buy it. I've always liked cars, and think the 50s and 60s were tremendous years for the auto industry. Those fanciful fins. The luxury of push-button transmission. Windows that go up and down with the touch of a finger. Some of the cars in here are no surprise (the Yugo, Chevrolet Citation)...

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Rated 5 stars
Best book on Worst Cars!

What I like about this book is that many of the cars reviewed as the "worst" are cars we all know about, presently have, had in the past, or know someone who has or had the car. Other such books talk about obscure or experimantal cars - such as flying cars, etc. - But this is a book we can all relate to. Nice organized layout also. Lots of fun reminiscing.

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Rated 5 stars
Lighten Up, Gentlemen

I went through all of the cars in about 2 hours. Not many books make me laugh out loud, but this one did. It's really quite hilarious. I regretted reaching the last page. One crit is that a fair number of cars are obscure English or European cars, but Americans will recognize most of the cars in this book. In fact, I owned one of these appalling cars, The Mazda 121, aka Ford Festiva, Ford's CAFE special of the early 90's...

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Rated 4 stars
A Very Sober Look at Automobile Silliness

With an upside-down three-wheeled car on the cover, you'd expect a lot of yuck-yucks inside. Nope! In a very dry, veddy British manner, various cars are elucidated as being right but at the wrong time, or big bombs that sank their companies, or shoddily made, and so on. I guess it shows my bourgoisie-ness (is that a word?) when I don't have a clue about some of Mr Cheetham's comments. He says that such and such a car has...

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Rated 4 stars
Coffee Table Car book

There's mountains of books out there for great cars. There's whole libraries devoted to them but what happens to those stinkers that fail miserable, have poor performance, or are just dang ugly. Craig Cheetham has put forth this book listing roughly 150 of what he deems are some of the worst cars in the world. It's easy to go through and makes for an entertaining coffee table book. Each entry gives the basic stats during production...

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