Customer Reviews
Not great - By: Crazy Andy, 02 Mar 2007 
I bought this book as a fan of Top Gear, hoping for some humour about "bad cars".
However, the author has been dismissive of some very good cars, & recommended as the best some cars that have a terrible reputation that I would never buy.
Therefore I do not rate this book!
Tim McGrath - By: Authors Weekly, 21 Jan 2007 
This is a fabulous book. Guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of any driver. Quality pictures & good humour the way only Hammond can deliver it. Withour doubt a compulsive page turner. Find out just how cool are the cars you've previously owned & of course the ones you would like to own. Strongly recommended to drivers & non drivers alike..
One tiny omission - By: Mr. Christian M. Southgate, 25 Sep 2006 
A great read but it's probably best to wait for the updated edition which will include "300mph Jet Car With Wobbly Wheels".
Des Lynam in a Honda Civic - By: Gaz Pacho, 01 Aug 2006 This is a great book from Richie Hammond, the little guy from the Top Gear car programme. Most people will be familiar with his big mucker Jeremy Clarkston, the one who wants to kill foreigners, smoke where he wants & drop litter. Hammond is the more acceptable face of Top Gear & he's produced a nice book which takes a 'sideways look' at cars & the people who drive them. Apparently, BMW drivers are more likely to profane in front of their kids than Saab drivers. And Ford Mondeo drivers are 37% more constipated than the British average - though not as a result of the driving position! Hammond also has some fun with the types of cars that celebs drive. He himself has a Jaguar XK8, with customised raised seating; Ross Kemp has a Hummer, with a 'baby on board' sticker; & Stephen Fry drives a London taxi, though he won't stop if you try to flag him down. He also has a train for longer journeys. Clarkson (obviously!) has a great big tank.
A caravan of a book. - By: L. Kemp, 01 Jun 2006 If you're a fan of Top Gear & enjoy Jeremy Clarkson's outrageous humour or James May's sexy lyrical intellectual wit then you're going to be disapointed in this book. Unless you love Richard "The Hamster" Hammond with a passion that only a sweet innocent pre-teen crush can bring, I wouldn't bother with this book. The book creates fairly unimaginative steriotypes around the ownership of different models of cars & fails to bring anything new to the subject of motoring. Like Hammond, this book is smalll, shiney & it's simple to read.
