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.
The push to be ever greener and have more of the vehicle biodegradable has had an unforeseen and very unwanted side-effect. Rodents are happily chowing down on the wiring looms of some newer cars, rendering them inoperable at best and sometimes dangerous at worst. There have been reports surfacing for about a year now of car owners having to fork out for expensive car repair bills due to rodent damage in the engine. It would seem that the new biodegradable wires are made from something that rats in particular love to eat, and that something is soy.