Porsche Passport? What’s all this about?
Porsche has always been about making cars fast yet elegant, engineered marvelously AND easy to drive just about anywhere. Porsche now wants us to get a feel of its cars and how it blends in with our lives.
Porsche has always been about making cars fast yet elegant, engineered marvelously AND easy to drive just about anywhere. Porsche now wants us to get a feel of its cars and how it blends in with our lives.
The sharing economy is booming across the world and shaking up traditional industries. There’s Uber’s ride-sharing in transport and AirBnB in hotel and Spotify in music; from offices to bicycles, there are share options to be had. But thus far, the market for car-sharing remains in what can only be described as an embryonic state.
I suppose it was about as depressing as it was inevitable when Rolls-Royce announced that it too was going into the SUV game. The company that has steadfastly manufactured extreme high-end vehicles for the world’s well-heeled would pander to the demands for vehicles in that segment of the market as well.
Our newest Automologist, ATHERTON, really, really likes Alfas, and the first SUV from the brand has gotten him no less excited.
“I remember a time when humans used to drive cars” is a phrase that we will be using in the future, and Automologist MAC brings us news that that future is near.
About a year ago, we wrote about a brand new company coming out of Taiwan that may just reshape the future of electric propulsion in cars, and it doesn’t even make cars; no, it makes Scooters. (Read also: Is this the Tesla of Scooters?) Well, just twelve short months later, Gogoro has announced a JV with Japanese giant, Sumitomo, to launch its battery-sharing scooter service in Japan, and compete head-to-head with industry giants such as Honda.