num_pages: 128
description: Designing and making cars is an expensive thing to do. So is racing them. All told the car business spends billions every year and with such vast sums at stake youd think the people involved wouldnt give desk space to Captain Cockup. Sadly you would be wrong. Every department in every car firm and motorsport operation is capable of complete and abject failure and on a surprisingly regular basis. Which is what this book is about. You see Top Gear knows a thing or two about embarrassing mistakes as anyone who watched our India special will know. The truth is for many years Top Gear has also regarded failure as funny. Where other television programs edit out the moment where the presenter falls over or slams their hand in a door Top Gear gleefully leaves it in. So who better to take you on a gentle canter through 50 of the car worlds biggest and most glorious failures? Thats right its Top Gear. Who else did you think?
language: English
title: Top Gear: Epic Failures: 50 Great Motoring Cock-Ups
publisher: BBC Books