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A Medium-sized Book of Boring Car Trivia
£5.70
Did you know that the Peugeot 309 was almost a Talbot? Or that the Ford Mondeo was nearly called the Ford Lyrus? Or that Sweden reminded its people the country was switching from driving on the left to the right by releasing a special song called Keep To The Right, Svensson? Did you WANT to know these things? Well, the good news is this medium-sized book of boring car trivia is here for you, bursting with over 250 barely interesting facts and a foreword by TV’s James May. The bad news is there might be something wrong with you.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Independently published (19 April 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 101 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8638657918 |
| Dimensions | 13.34 x 0.66 x 20.32 cm |
by Mr R R Howard
Forgot I bought this! Found it after collapsing after a run. I can’t run. Why do I bother?! Anyway a book full of car geekery. I like cars. I like boring people with facts. Perfect book. Shame I can’t remember any of the facts to bore people. But don’t let that put you off! I still can’t get up off the floor After the run. If I’m still here in an hour call for help okay. Thanks.
by Paul Bottomley
Completely brilliant!! As someone who regularly bores colleagues and friends with inane car facts I have found an amazing new resource in this book. There are moments of laugh out loud humour (Citroen 2CV James Bond Special Editions, Ferdinand Piech threatening to fire people, etc)
I actually spent my year out from university working for ford during the final years of the mk1 focus programme (way back in 97-98) I can well imagine all of the development based facts to be completely true. I spent a whole day in a dark room showing ford execs exactly how we proposed to reduce the amount of light leaking from round the centre of the rev counter and speedo needle for the production versions, and remember being insanely excited when I was able to ride along with an engineer in a fully disguised prototype on the test track at Dunton and on the A127 whilst we checked the counter weights in the ends of the needles didnt make any vibrating noise regardless of speed.
My own contribution:
Right up until almost launch, the lower spec mk1 focus’s (foci?) were meant to come with a much lower grade instrument cluster with no rev counter, it was canned at literally the last minute (the line making the cluster was already running to assemble both)
by Marcus
Incredibly boring and highly recommended. No other book provides this many facts or this level of boredom.
by Amazon Customer
Caution! Buy with care. Every fact from this book has pushed another fact out of my brain. Unfortunately some of the facts I lost were my wife’s birthday and our wedding anniversary. Hence this book caused my divorce… On the plus side there are no awkward silences when I go on a date, because I can always fill a silence with a nugget about the Morris Ital, which usually goes down well!
Oh God I’m so alone…
by Mr R R Howard
A brief read and mostly exactly as described – boring.
by Mark W.
This book made me smile! I like watching the Author on various TV Programmes.
by Steve Finnerty
Forwarded by James May (less than a page so don’t buy it for his contribution!) and written by one of the key writers for Top Gear and Grand Tour Richard Porter it contains boring car trivia as described. So if you are desperate to know what VTEC stands for who was first to fit 6 figure odometers in their cars then this is the book for you.
It is not a long read, less than 100 pages of broadly spaced text and it won’t help you to attract the opposite sex (unless they have a similar obsession!) but it is fun while it lasts if car trivia is your thing and could help you prepare the killer question for the car club Zoom Virtual Lockdown Quiz!
by Hedders
The genuinely interesting trivia contained within this indispensable knowledge tome will allow you to baffle those alpha-male gym apes and make pretty females gasp in amazement.
Think your tatty old Vauxhall Zafira A has nothing to do with Porsche? Think again!
Impress other single men you meet when telling them the Bova Futura coach you drive the Ulverston Bowls Club around in shares direct lineage with the fabled McLaren F1!
Where else would you learn the man who designed the confident yet conservatively styled E28 5-series would later go on to stab his own son to death?
Or that the mid-90’s median political voter ‘Mondeo Man’ was very close to being known as the far more mysterious sounding ‘Lyrus Man’!
Once fully ingested, this book will guarantee to make your voice 19% more nasally.
A must read!