It won’t be any time soon, but the death knell has been sounded for combustion-powered cars across the UK. The UK government is wrestling with pollution in the towns and congestion on the roads with a new pollution tax that will ultimately herald the end of the traditional car.
Modern cars are much quicker and reliable, and handle a hell of a lot better; they are very economical, safer, cheaper to maintain and far more comfortable. Despite all of these, the more painful to own, the better. Classic cars not only still exist, but are positively thriving. Many are being killed by rust yet their value continues to increase rapidly.
Cars or women, we’re not sure which our Automologist MAC loves more…but there’s something, or rather a few little someones, whom he loves more than both.
Americans have had a love-love relationship with the amount of horsepower they can squeeze into a car, and to tell you the truth, I have always had more than just a passing fascination with the American Muscle Car, as they are generally known. Over the years, there has been a few attempts to rein the manufacturers in, but the recent crop of muscle cars coming out of the States seems to have upped the ante – we say “long live the horsepower war”.
Did Volkswagen just throw down the gauntlet and challenge Tesla? Automologist MAC reports about the latest showdown in the electric car arena.
Despite the emissions scandal that has surrounded Volkswagen in Europe and North America, the German automaker has been just about in the top spot of the world’s automakers for a couple of years now.
When the great Japanese car invasion started back in the late 1960’s, they concentrated on the bargain and compact end of the market, where cost of purchase was the key motivator. This was also the model that many Chinese manufacturers followed in the mid-2000’s when they attempted to emulate their close neighbour in the European market.