Crap cars

the long version

Fifty of the most craptastic cars ever to hit the American highway: this book is a window into the vanity and silliness of almost any decade as expressed through that ultimate status symbol: your car. Traveling from the '60s to the '90s, it showcases the cheapest, the tackiest, and the mechanically inept, including cars made by companies like Porsche and BMW that put them to shame. There's also the blobby Merkur Scorpio, the ungainly Rolls-Royce Camargue, the squarish Maserati Biturbo, and the (ironically) flammable Renault Fuego. Each photo spread is accompanied by a short critique by Richard Porter, a crap car expert, who sees straight through all the pimped-out bodywork to the true lemon that lies underneath. This book is for anyone who loves cars or the casualties of bad taste.