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Top Gear: Epic Failures: 50 Great Motoring Cock-Ups Book

The automotive industry is responsible for some of the most beautiful designs ever to grace the face of the planet. But it's had its fair share of bad days at the office, too... Whether it's Ford designing a car that looks like a lady's nether parts, Toyota accidentally calling their car 'the merde' (in France) or Mitsubishi unveiling their new 'Starion' after mishearing calls from head office in Japan to call it the 'Stallion', the list of great motoring cock-ups of our time is a long and distinguished one - and the time has come to name and shame. From F1 drivers being run over by marshalling cars to marketing departments filling car showrooms with real live ponies (and, therefore, large piles of straw and poo) in an attempt to attract the family market, Top Gear has delved deep into the annals of motoring history to bring you the definitive list that the automotive industry would rather forget.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Designing and making cars is an expensive thing to do. So is racing them. All told, the car business spends billions every year and with such vast sums at stake you'd think the people involved wouldn't give desk space to Captain Cockup. Sadly, you would be wrong. Every department in every car firm and motorsport operation is capable of complete and abject failure, and on a surprisingly regular basis. Which is what this book is about. You see, Top Gear knows a thing or two about embarrassing mistakes, as anyone who watched our India special will know. The truth is, for many years Top Gear has also regarded failure as funny. Where other television programmes edit out the moment where the presenter falls over or slams their hand in a door, Top Gear gleefully leaves it in. So who better to take you on a gentle canter through 50 of the car world's biggest and most glorious failures? That's right, it's Top Gear. Who else did you think? If you want this sort of stuff from Countryfile you might be in for a wait.

  • BookDepository

    Top Gear: Epic Failures : Hardback : Ebury Publishing : 9781849908207 : 1849908206 : 15 Sep 2015 : All told, the car business spends billions every year and with such vast sums at stake you'd think the people involved wouldn't give desk space to Captain Cockup. You see, Top Gear knows a thing or two about embarrassing mistakes, as anyone who watched our India special will know.

  • 1849908206
  • 9781849908207
  • Richard Porter
  • 22 May 2014
  • BBC Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 128
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