Automotive Atrocities
The Cars We Love to Hate
Published on 31. July 2004
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-7603-1787-7 (ISBN)
Description
Automotive Atrocities: The Cars You Love to Hate will bring back memories of those truly awful cars that have "graced" our roads and driveways. A truly distasteful collection of fake muscle cars, down-car compacts, faux-"luxury" cars, sales disasters, and other truly ugly and ill-conceived four-wheeled follies are impaled upon the honed wit of syndicated automotive writer Eric Peters. Each car is finally given the treatment it truly deserves, with period photography and advertisements that somehow convinced otherwise intelligent people to buy these travesties of transportation. This book appeals to anyone who either unwisely decided or was forced against their will to drive an automotive atrocity. The book gives readers the last laugh as everyone's least-favorite cars are skewered in book form for the first time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
150 colour, 25 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7603-1787-7 (9780760317877)
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Person
Peters has been writing about cars and trucks-and things automotive in general-for the past 11 years. He's been a regular contributor to the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, Investors Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, and Boardroom/Bottom Line Personal, among others. He is a contributing editor at Consumer's Research magazine and freelances for American Way. He is currently the autos correspondent for America Online, Netscape, and CompuServe. He is from the Washington, D.C. area.