Ferrari is one of the few luxury car brands that have not launched an SUV model. All the others have got one. Even some of the more venerable brands such as Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini and Aston Martin and Bentley have them.
A few weeks ago, an article by Bloomberg, which in turn was highlighted by another on Says.com, made the rounds on the internet when it reported that Malaysian roads are the third most dangerous in the world (measured based on number of deaths per 100,000 population). My first thought when I read the article, being a car driver, was: “It’s those blardy motorbikes, always white-lining and swerving in and out of traffic.”
A Malaysian millionaire stuck more than 4,600 Hot Wheels toy cars onto his luxury car, drawing the attention of onlookers wherever he drives and leaving car lovers like us wondering WHY?
There is a global rush to meet government mandated emissions and fuel efficiency targets that threaten to reshape the way that we power our vehicles, but it will take many years for those changes and improvements to work their way through the system. In the meantime, Volvo of Sweden has announced that from 2019 onwards, all new Volvos launched will be at least in part electric-powered. It is a move that the company describes as “an historic end” to the internal combustion engine; well, at least in Sweden, that is.
After what seems to be an interminable wait, the much anticipated Tesla Model 3 is now fully charged and supposedly with us, we think.
Announcements made by the company would indicate that the car is now in production and the first deliveries will be made on July 28th; however, in the same announcement, Tesla has acknowledged the rumour that had been circulating about the shortfall it is facing in manufacturing the 100 kilowatt battery packs.
There really should be a different car horn for different situations. But cars usually come with just the one – LOUD AND ANGRY. Youtuber and former NASA Engineer, Mark Rober, thought that that was too limiting and since he has the smarts for it, he gave his car horn an “increased vocabulary”.