[PDF] Crap Cars eBook

Author : Richard Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1582346380

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Offers a window into the vanity and silliness of almost every decade as expressed by the ultimate status symbol of the car, showcasing the cheapest, tackiest, and most mechanically inept vehicles built from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Author : Craig Cheetham
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 9781840137514

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This text takes a detailed look at motoring mistakes - old and new - and asks questions like: why did they ever reach the showroom? What went wrong? Who bought these cars? Featuring 150 of the cars we love (and love to hate), this text celebrates the world's worst cars in all their flawed glory.

Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1429945397

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Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand "good" communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.

Author : D. C. Pierson
Publisher : Speak
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142422312

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Tenth-grader Tom Parking's dream of being swept away to a fantasy land where he becomes a hero nearly comes true when he finds himself the Chosen One of a nameless world, the most annoying, least "cool" place in the universe.

Author : Blake Nelson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545104750

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Through assignments for English class, seventeen-year-old James Hoff rants against consumerism and his classmates' apathy, puzzles over his feelings for his ex-girlfriend, and expresses disdain for his emotionally distant parents.

Author : Bert Levy
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312186241

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A year out of high school in the early 1950s, New Jersey mechanic Buddy Palumbo falls in love with two things at once: race car driving with its speed and adventure, and his boss' niece, Miss Julie Finzio