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dwasson
01-15-2006, 06:32 PM
Crap Cars (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582346380/102-2827644-6611303?v=glance&n=283155) by Richard Porter

A visual feast of fifty of the most craptastic cars ever to hit the American highway.

Crap Cars is a window into the vanity and silliness of almost any decade as expressed through that ultimate of status symbols: 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 the (ironically) flammable Renault Fuego. Each photo spread is accompanied by a short, hilarious critique by Richard Porter, a crap car expert, who sees straight through all the pimped-out bodywork to the true lemon that lies underneath.

Crap Cars is the perfect gift for anyone who loves cars or the casualties of bad taste, or for that special someone who misses their own beloved, long-gone piece of crap.

QWK SVT
01-15-2006, 06:47 PM
Richard Porter is one of the BBC writers, for Top Gear. His writing is very much like the snobby arrogance of Jeremy Clarkson (the host)...

The Yugo! It made its debut in 1985 selling for $4000. (A tiny, stripped Ford Escort cost just under $6000). It looked like it was made of linoleum. Its electricals were like the wiring on a grade school science project. It turned mechanics and auto parts jockeys into stand-up comedians. (Man walks into auto parts store. “Can I get a carburetor for a Yugo?” Parts man ponders. “Maybe… if you can throw in some cash with the car.”)

Vortex
01-16-2006, 08:55 AM
Richard Porter is one of the BBC writers, for Top Gear. His writing is very much like the snobby arrogance of Jeremy Clarkson (the host)...

The Yugo! It made its debut in 1985 selling for $4000. (A tiny, stripped Ford Escort cost just under $6000). It looked like it was made of linoleum. Its electricals were like the wiring on a grade school science project. It turned mechanics and auto parts jockeys into stand-up comedians. (Man walks into auto parts store. “Can I get a carburetor for a Yugo?” Parts man ponders. “Maybe… if you can throw in some cash with the car.”)

My brother had one of those little s---boxes and drove it for about 150k miles with no major problems. It was just a cheapo Fiat made in Yugoslavia and if you never let it overheat it was as good as any other s---box car IMHO. Would I own one, no thanks.