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Automotive Atrocities: The Cars We Love to Hate Hardcover – July 31, 2004

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The bathtub-like AMC Pacer. The operationally challenged Yugo GV. The supremely unsavory Chrysler TC by Maserati. These wheeled nightmares and many more are gleefully trashed by author Eric Peters. If the eyesores like the decal powered 1978 Ford Mustang II King Cobra don't make you howl, well, consider this the used car buying guide of your dreams. - "Fright Club" Motor Trend, November 2004Automakers have foisted plenty of bad and even laughable cars upon an unsuspecting public over the years. Millions of people have been duped into buying mistakes-on-wheels, while millions more have been subjected to these cars after the new-car smell is gone, revealing only vehicular inadequacy.Automotive Atrocities: The Cars We Love to Hate is a truly distasteful collection of fake muscle cars, clown-car compacts, faux "luxury" cars, sales disasters, and other truly ugly and ill-conceived four-wheeled follies. Written for anyone who either unwisely decided or was forced against their will to drive an automotive atrocity, this book gives the motoring public the last laugh as everyone's least-favorite cars are skewered in book form for the first time.

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128 pages
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English
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Motorbooks
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July 31, 2004
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9.25 x 0.62 x 9.25 inches
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0760317879
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978-0760317877
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"...an entertaining look at vehicles that probably cost some optimistic automotive designer his career...an excellent gift." -- Sports Car, July 2005

About the Author

Eric Peters has been writing about new and vintage cars and trucks—and things automotive in general—since 1993. He is an automotive columnist for America Online, Netscape, and Compuserve. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Motorbooks; First edition (July 31, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760317879
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760317877
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 0.62 x 9.25 inches

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George Teufel

An amusing read, in amongst the bile.

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Since this is based mostly on the author's opinion, rather than cold, hard facts, you may disagree with the list presented.
It seemed like the articles were overly vitriolic toward some of the cars listed, Mr. Peters seems to have an especially dim view of American Motors.
My father (and I) owned several AMC vehicles; he owned a 1974 Ambassador and it was a fine car, yet it is presented here as an "atrocity".
Several pages have an art style that makes reading the text difficult, reducing enjoyment of the book.
Much of the "humor" is forced and, due to the book being published about a dozen years ago, out-of-date for contemporary readers.
I'll have to admit, there are a few models here I hadn't heard of despite the fact they were offered during my driving adulthood.
An at least mildly amusing read; though, to coin a phrase, your mileage may vary.

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Eric Larsen

The book dishonoring the bombs of the seventies and eighties

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I got this book for the pure joy of entertainment, and really this book is a must for any car nut. The really interesting thing is i owned three of the Automotive Atrocites mentioned in the book, and agree with everything that was said about them ( The Mustang II, Dodge Omni, and Plymouth Reliant). Another car mentioned, my oldest sister owned,( The dreadful Chevy Vega) and needless to say, she would relate as well. What a laugh ad a half. The only thing is, he left out some truly hideous cars out such as the Edsel and the Corvair. However, for those of you who hated the book, get over it. I think it is funny, and will really bring back the memories, or have you relive your nightmares of one of those lemons, whichever comes first.

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Johnny Mason

This book was exactly what I wanted!

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020

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Have wanted this book for years. I am now enjoying this book. Would recommend this book for anyone to enjoy.

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2014

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Opinions galore but a fun book to read.

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2011

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This book is great I loved it, and the guy I bought it for loved it as well. For anyone that has a grease monkey in the family this is a great book because it makes them smile.

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Edward A. Del Castillo

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018

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Great Research Book.

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John Walker

Regrettable cars from the era when “contempt for the customer” ruled

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019

Oh my, oh my, there really were some awful automobiles on the road in the 1970s and 1980s, weren't there? Those born too late to experience them may not be fully able to grasp the bumper to bumper shoddiness of such rolling excrescences as the diesel Chevette, the exploding Pinto, Le Car, the Maserati Biturbo, the Cadillac V-8-6-4 and even worse diesel; bogus hamster-powered muscle cars (“now with a black stripe and fake hood scoop, for only $5000 more!”); the Yugo, the DeLorean, and the Bricklin—remember that one?

They're all here, along with many more vehicles which, like so many things of that era, can only elicit in those who didn't live through it, the puzzled response, “What were they thinking?” Hey, I lived through it, and that's what I used to think when blowing past multi-ton wheezing early 80s Thunderbirds (by then, barely disguised Ford Fairmonts) in my 1972 VW bus!

Anybody inclined toward automotive Schadenfreude will find this book enormously entertaining, as long as you weren't one of the people who spent your hard-earned, rapidly-inflating greenbacks for one of these regrettable rolling rustbuckets. Unlike many automotive books, this one is well-produced and printed, has few if any typographical errors, and includes many excerpts from the contemporary sales material which recall just how slimy and manipulative were the campaigns used to foist this junk off onto customers who, one suspects, the people selling it referred to in the boardroom as “the rubes”.

It is amazing to recall that almost a generation exists whose entire adult experience has been with products which, with relatively rare exceptions, work as advertised, don't break as soon as you take them home, and rapidly improve from year to year. Those of us who remember the 1970s took a while to twig to the fact that things had really changed once the Asian manufacturers raised the quality bar a couple of orders of magnitude above where the U.S. companies thought they had optimised their return.

In the interest of full disclosure, I will confess that I once drove a 1966 MGB, but I didn't buy it new!

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Fun book, great price!

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