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Author: Richard Porter Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1582346380 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
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: Richard Porter Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1582346380 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
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: Jason Vuic Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429945397 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
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: Craig Cheetham Publisher: ISBN: 9781840137514 Category : Automobiles Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
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: D. C. Pierson Publisher: Speak ISBN: 0142422312 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
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. ISBN: 0545104750 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
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: Craig Cheetham Publisher: Rosen Young Adult ISBN: 9781404218444 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Describes the automobiles with the least success, including vehicles that were poorly constructed, badly designed, so expensive or so unpopular they lost money, or marketed as part of the wrong make.
Author: Timothy Jacobs Publisher: Smithmark Pub ISBN: 9780831754938 Category : Automobiles Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
The automotive industry's most fabulous failures, from the notoriously dangerous Chevrolet Corvair sedan to the less-than-airworthy "Flying Wombat," are described and pictured in all their fascinating folly in this entertaining gallery.
Author: Richard Porter
Author: Richard Porter
Author: Jason Vuic
Author: Timothy Jacobs
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines
Author: Craig Cheetham
Author: D. C. Pierson
Author: Blake Nelson
Author: Craig Cheetham
Author: Craig Cheetham
Author: Timothy Jacobs