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Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code [Hardcover]

Ministry of Top Gear
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Book Description

27 May 2010

As everyone knows, there are three ways of doing things. The right way, the wrong way and the Top Gear way. Although, on reflection, that's usually just the wrong way, but faster and with more shouting. Anyway, the good news is that this third way of doing things can be applied to almost anything, and that includes motoring in general. All you need is the right guidance, which is where the brand new Top Gear Alternative Highway Code comes in.

Top Gear's Altnernative Highway Code will show you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to your driving, containing advice on general motoring, as well as specific tips on how to deal with common eventualities like a rapidly sinking amphibious camper van, a caravan airship that's just crashed into a small bush, or a stupid home-made limousine that's snapped in half while transporting a top celebrity to an awards ceremony.

Road users should not leave home without it.


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Product details

  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books (27 May 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849900272
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849900270
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.4 x 24.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Book Description

The Ministry of Transport has been infiltrated by Top Gear, who have issued their own set of rules for the road with a distinct Top Gear twist

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Top Gear script editor Richard Porter is also the author of The Big Book of Top Gear, and Paul Powell is a radio and TV comedy writer whose many credits include Have I Got News For You, Al Murray's Happy Hour, Mock the Week, The Now Show and two series of Top Gear.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing 1 Dec 2011
By Alana
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Since my Dad watches Top Gear like his life depended on it, I thought "why not this for Christmas"? I've had a flick through and everything I read had me giggling and got me a lot of strange looks from work colleagues. If you like Top Gear or anything that has to do with cars n driving then get this, it's giggle and laugh guaranteed -- I can see my Dad laughing his head off reading this. I'm not disapointed with this buy.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic 15 July 2010
By Sir Furboy TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
this book is absolutely wonderful. A funny alternative view to the Highway Code. I have not laughed so much at a book about driving since I read the equally funny (but now probably out of print) "Boston Drivetr's Handbook". This book does not steal from the other one, but the tongue in cheek humour is very similar.

I am not a big fan of Top Gear the programme, but that did not detract from my enjoyment of this hilarious book.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best fathers day present to date 21 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover
Our son bought this for his dad and i just thought that it would be a token present and he wont even bother looking at it. But as i was cooking breakfast i heard belly laughing coming from the room and when i went to look i saw both of them looking through this book and really laughing. it was nice sight for a fathers day morning.

this is not all, i have heard my husband qoute snippets of it to his friends on the phone and, as i have him as a friend on facebook, i have witnessed him use it to inform his status updates.

i never write reviews but i felt i should give my son credit - in writting- for arguing with me to buy this for his dad, it turned out to be a real winner. Well done DYLAN
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good fun
To anyone has ever suffered from the annoyance of having to learn a whole lot of highway code material, from the blindingly obvious to the irritatingly pedantic, this is the... Read more
Published 28 days ago by William Axtell
5.0 out of 5 stars Top Advice from the Troublesome Trio
A hilarious look at the Art of the Driving Test

Fans of the show will not be disappointed

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Published 1 month ago by slalom69
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Top Gear
a distillation of the presenter's opinions on how to drive on the roads today. Hilarious. Bout it for a new learner driver - that should confuse her no end!
Published 1 month ago by David
4.0 out of 5 stars it is funny
do not follow most of the rules as you are frequently warned. It is written as if by Jeremy Clarkson and it gives you a laugh,
Published 2 months ago by Susan Bailey
4.0 out of 5 stars TOP GEAR
I bought this book for a present and had a quick look through it before I gave it to him. It was very amusing, good quality and unusual. Winner all round.
Published 3 months ago by Lynne
5.0 out of 5 stars book
this item is absolutely fab i love it it is absolutely perfect and arrived well packaged and on time thanks
Published 3 months ago by irene WILSON
4.0 out of 5 stars Great present
For a Top gear fanatic a great birthday present and would be recommended for similar fans. Amusing for anyone just to pick up.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs Sally Spicer
5.0 out of 5 stars Not really The Highway Code.
Bought as a gift for my nephew in the Antipodes, as he likes Top Gear and I thought it would be a bit of fun for him. Well he liked it.
Published 3 months ago by O'Keef
1.0 out of 5 stars present
Hate top gear bought for a present as asked Nothing more to write, Nothing more to write nothing more to write
Published 3 months ago by just me
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Top Gear fans
For Top Gear lovers this is a very good, funny book and makes a great gift. Well worth every penny
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. Alicia V. Giambarresi
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