Which Bond girl helped to develop the Volvo XC90? Where was the last place on earth to let you fill up with leaded petrol? Why did engineers sneak a top secret Range Rover prototype out of the back gate of their engineering centre in the dead of night? The answers to all these questions and many more can be found inside this, the third instalment of Boring Car Trivia. It’s longer, it’s more detailed, and by crikey it’s more tedious. This book doesn’t have a sub-title but if it did, it would be BORE HARDER.
I'm the target audience for this book. It's little stories and random trivia like the fact that a Bond Girl helped develop a Volvo and that the Volkswagen Golf Pink Floyd edition is a thing
Once again Mr Petrol delves deep into the dark and dusty corners of the car industry to come up with a book of boring car trivia.
If anything this is even more boring and more trivial than the previous volumes. For car nerds that means fewer ‘yes I knew that’ moments but more opportunities to impress your petrolhead friends and see everyone else’s eyes glaze over. Priceless.