A Medium Sized Book of Boring Car Trivia
The new Sniff Petrol (digital) book now promises to impart lots of car knowledge you didn't know before
You know who Richard Porter is by now: evo columnist for yonks, brain behind Sniff Petrol for even longer and script editor for those three old men on Amazon, he's irritatingly excellent at writing about cars. And very funny, which you might remember from such titles as Roy Lanchester's How To Be a Motoring Journalist.
Well, thanks to his self-proclaimed Age of Boredom (and a little bit of help from Twitter), Porter is back with a new tome: A Medium Sized Book of Boring Car Trivia. Obviously it's not yet available in print, but it is downloadable onto your digital devices.
Well worth a few quid it is too, packed full of the weird, obscure, esoteric knowledge nuggets that are of precious little use in any situation - but are great fun to read. Any car fan will learn something from AMSBOBCT, whether that's Porsche's involvement in the Vauxhall Zafira, why Ehra-Lessien is where it is, Ford's Project Petunia or how much money really was lost on each Peugeot 1007. We could go on, of course, but you'll need to buy the book for all the juiciest titbits. Suffice it to say car nerds will be kept occupied and entertained (and safely away from anybody else) for an hour or so.
Furthermore, despite this ultimately being a collection of facts assembled into a book, it's not as dry as you might expect. Obviously AMSBOBCT isn't going to make it onto a Costa shortlist, although you'll be surprised how readable the 100 pages or so are; largely thanks to how appealingly strange the anecdotes are (wait for 'stickers of arseholes'), but also due to the typically charming way Porter relays them. It could be a lot more boring, put it that way...
Certainly for less than the cost of a film rental, it's a worthy addition to your digital book collection. (Pre-orders are being taken now, with deliveries provisionally due in May, should you want a physical copy.) Just think, too, how excited the family will be to hear about all the fascinating things you've learnt from the new Sniff Petrol book - thank us (and Richard) another time...
And a big shout out for 'Smith and Sniff ' on Youtube too (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCetcgTqJiNFKYipfBT1YIWQ). It wont be for everyone obviously, but its fun to listen to what goes in in their heads about cars in general (that was not a paid advertisement by the way, no affiliation etc).
but...
Surely this is a paid advertisement, and as such i thought there was a legal requirment to make that known to readers/viewers?
All the best,
Richard
All the best,
Richard
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