A FREEWHEELING INSIDER ACCOUNT OF THE BASTARDS, BANDITS, AND BOZOS OF AMERICA'S CAR BUSINESS -- AND WHAT YOU SHOULD REALLY KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY A CAR -- FROM A FORTY-YEAR AUTO INDUSTRY VETERAN.
From the moment he joined a Memphis, Tennessee, dealership of Liberty Chrysler-Plymouth in 1979 as perhaps the only parts counterman in history with a graduate degree in Scottish medieval history, Randy Pressgrove has been a car guy.
In the ensuing four decades in sales and dealership development assignments across the world, he saw it all -- from Chrysler and most of the industry's narrow escape from the brink of bankruptcy in the early 1980s, to the 1990s revival of the VW Beetle, to the rise of electric vehicles (EVs), to the existential change brought on by the 2020s pandemic, and everything in between. Written with an old-fashioned storyteller's panache, a wide-angle historical lens, and the rare vantage point of someone with experience in all the methods and madness of the car-buying process from the factory to the showroom, this book reveals:
This Car Sux! is part hilarious and compulsively readable memoir, part 'Kitchen Confidential' for cars, and part epic saga of the automobile industry as it evolved from a vibrant and quintessentially American institution of the '50s, '60s and '70s to one today that is beset on all sides by cutthroat competition, scandal, and existential technological disruption.
| ISBN: | 9798891386341 |
| Publication date: | 17th February 2026 |
| Author: | Randy Pressgrove |
| Publisher: | Amplify Publishing an imprint of Amplify Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 328 pages |
| Genres: |
Motoring |
A FREEWHEELING INSIDER ACCOUNT OF THE BASTARDS, BANDITS, AND BOZOS OF AMERICA'S CAR BUSINESS -- AND WHAT YOU SHOULD REALLY KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY A CAR -- FROM A FORTY-YEAR AUTO INDUSTRY VETERAN.
From the moment he joined a Memphis, Tennessee, dealership of Liberty Chrysler-Plymouth in 1979 as perhaps the only parts counterman in history with a graduate degree in Scottish medieval history, Randy Pressgrove has been a car guy.
In the ensuing four decades in sales and dealership development assignments across the world, he saw it all -- from Chrysler and most of the industry's narrow escape from the brink of bankruptcy in the early 1980s, to the 1990s revival of the VW Beetle, to the rise of electric vehicles (EVs), to the existential change brought on by the 2020s pandemic, and everything in between. Written with an old-fashioned storyteller's panache, a wide-angle historical lens, and the rare vantage point of someone with experience in all the methods and madness of the car-buying process from the factory to the showroom, this book reveals:
This Car Sux! is part hilarious and compulsively readable memoir, part 'Kitchen Confidential' for cars, and part epic saga of the automobile industry as it evolved from a vibrant and quintessentially American institution of the '50s, '60s and '70s to one today that is beset on all sides by cutthroat competition, scandal, and existential technological disruption.
This Car Sux! features in the following genres: Motoring
This Car Sux! is available in Hardback
This Car Sux! was written by Randy Pressgrove and published by Amplify Publishing an imprint of Amplify Publishing Group
This Car Sux! has 328 pages
£26.09