Confessions from quality control: Stories of bodges and balls-ups of car factories in the nineties

Confessions from quality control is a light hearted traipse through various car factories around the world. From Ford to Fiat, Hummer to Porsche (and quite a lot of Rover) the author retells stories of the amusing bodges and balls-ups he experienced in the quality department of car manufacturers in the 1990s. If you’ve ever found a finger in your new MINI, or a sandwich in your Vauxhall, this book might explain how it got there. The author travels around the world and gets mugged in Poland, lost in China and locked in an asylum in the Czech Republic, but the scariest place of all was Ford in Dagenham. The story finishes with an epic experiment; a roadtrip to Africa in a fleet of ’industrial unrest Rovers’.＂Hilarious＂ - TopGear script writer, Richard Porter.

Rich Duisberg writes for a number of car magazines, and occasionally writes and presents for CBS’s Carfection channel and Motors TV. He was once paid to help manufacturers put new cars together properly, but now spends his time taking old cars apart and losing the important bits. In his garage is a very early Mk1 MX-5, a Porsche 968 sport, a Sinclair C5 and his beloved vintage Royal Enfield pushbike. What they say; ＂A tw*t＂ - TV presenter, Noel Edmonds. ＂I’m not getting in a car with him＂ - 5 time LeMans winner, Derek Bell. ＂Hilarious＂ - TopGear script writer, Richard Porter. ＂Cease and desist＂ - Lotus Cars Plc, England.