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A Medium-sized Book of Boring Car Trivia
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.
- GenresNonfictionCars
103 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2020
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March 4, 2024
It is indeed a medium sized book of car trivia, but whether you find it "boring" or not depends on your interest in the automotive world - plenty of quirky and fascinating facts about cars, my reactions during reading tended to be a mixture of "ooh, huh, wow" and the occasional giggle. A perfect book to dip in and out of when you're in the mood for some *incredibly* light reading, and there's at least three more trivia books when you've finished this one.
January 3, 2022
This is less a book with narrative and more a random collection of car trivia. Bunch of the trivia are honestly quite interesting indeed.
You know what is a missed opportunity?
Add illustrations and pictures to the trivia listed and voila you have your perfect CAR COFFEE TABLE book for car enthusiasts!
You know what is a missed opportunity?
Add illustrations and pictures to the trivia listed and voila you have your perfect CAR COFFEE TABLE book for car enthusiasts!
December 25, 2024
Look I’m not going to pretend everyone is going to love this, but if your leisure time involves watching Top Dead Center and listening to the C.R.E.A.M podcast, this is your book. You might even give Edwin a run for his money after reading it. If you can remember any of it.
May 6, 2020
I think you'll find that this is not as boring as it claims to be, I read the whole thing in one sitting, and didn't even fall asleep.
October 27, 2020
This is partially misselling, because some of these facts are interesting, but most of them are deathly dull and just constitute a list of facts with no interesting stories around them
September 4, 2021
I lasted 3 pages...
Awful!
Awful!
January 17, 2022
Interesting
Very interesting book of you like cars.fascinating information and trivia not really boring.is fun and easy to read.I recommend it.
Very interesting book of you like cars.fascinating information and trivia not really boring.is fun and easy to read.I recommend it.
April 17, 2022
Kort men seig
May 9, 2025
pretty boring car trivia
May 15, 2020
It's endearing and cute how this little peculiar book assumes I know what the heck it's talking about. Alas, I do not. I'm afraid I really have no idea how cars work. I know as much about cars as cars know about me.
So that being said, I still think this was an amusing and fascinating short read. Besides shining a light on a subculture I am clueless around, there's a fun joy seeing what a mad world it can be in the engineering department or head office of a car company. Sticking beer cans on exhaust pipes, build facilities near no-fly-zone borders to prevent spying, or Geely's first secret foray into car making -- having to quality test their prototype's car door by opening and closing the door a thousand times...by hand.
A gearhead would probably love this. It has (by no coincidence) that energetic Top Gear adoration of all things that go vroom, and a British sense of humor to match. Plus, at 100 pages with pretty much a buckshot approach to organization, it never dwells too long on anything that's boring.
So that being said, I still think this was an amusing and fascinating short read. Besides shining a light on a subculture I am clueless around, there's a fun joy seeing what a mad world it can be in the engineering department or head office of a car company. Sticking beer cans on exhaust pipes, build facilities near no-fly-zone borders to prevent spying, or Geely's first secret foray into car making -- having to quality test their prototype's car door by opening and closing the door a thousand times...by hand.
A gearhead would probably love this. It has (by no coincidence) that energetic Top Gear adoration of all things that go vroom, and a British sense of humor to match. Plus, at 100 pages with pretty much a buckshot approach to organization, it never dwells too long on anything that's boring.
May 2, 2020
The perfect bedside book. You can read half the book or half a page before you turn off the light and go to sleep. No worry about losing the plot line or forgetting characters.
Also, a lot of fun to read. But only for Petrol Heads! Normal people, keep your distance.
Also, a lot of fun to read. But only for Petrol Heads! Normal people, keep your distance.
May 2, 2020
Anything but boring.
May 13, 2020
A smallish book of actually interesting trivia.
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