No, there’s no typo. I mean to say Global Warning, not Global Warming. Being an avid car enthusiast I fear that we may never see a REAL car – a car that is worth driving and looking at!
From Bladerunner and 5th Element to Demolition Man and Minority Report; and recently depicted in I-Robot, you’ve seen it all in the movies – how the car will one day self-drive and look like a condom stuffed with your vibrating handphone – smooth, slippery shape with no adrenaline inducing sound to be heard except electricity murmur. That one day is not that far off.
Look at the current crop of cars around you. They don’t excite you, do they? Even if they do, they do only for a couple of weeks. Then they just blend in so much so that you don’t even notice you actually own them. The sad part is, mass public is accepting this change with open arms (and wallets). They just buy the latest one that they can afford out there without the slightest idea of what driving is all about, if they are at all driving to begin with.
It would be a relief if say, people choose reliability over aesthetics. But no. They actually buy a brand trusted for reliability and actually BELIEVE it looks good.
When was the last time you really stared at you car? Or spend hours just to look at it from different angles, under different lights?
I have always said this to my friends: that if you don’t turn around to catch a glimpse of your car after you have parked, locked and walked away from it, it’s not worth buying in the first place.
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