On Friday last I overtook one on the A1 as I was heading for my second funeral of the day... hence I was somewhat distracted to post about it at the time.

The car looked rather funky; it was in a Ford-'Squeeze'-sort-of-colour and appeared to keep up with traffic OK.

The shape of things to come. Possibly.

 

Shape of things to come (when they sort the range out!)

 

lets hope not.

life is dull enough already !

 

dont think life needs to be dull with electric, take the tesla roaster sport, 0 - 60 in 3.7 seconds. Still very early days but definitely interesting, the Achilles heal is battery technology.

 

what about the noise and the smell and the feeling ?

 

Noise, very true, but then my favourite is a muffled v12 rumble. Oh man I could go to sleep on that rumble. Smell, I can live without, give me aged leather over a decat any day. Feeling, they need to sort out those bloody heavy batteries.

 

Give me clean smelling quiet electric over filthy, noisy, stinking diesel anytime.

 

Not at all, a stop gap untill Hydrogen fuel cells or another alternative is found. And the the upto 100 Miles to a charge is laughable.

 

well duhhhhh.


i was on about something like say .....a V8


but then again at least a diesel is organic not some sterile oap scooter.

 

This car, and its ilk, will allow petrolheads to carry on being.

One of these for the commute, weekend plaything for the right times.

Better yet, it should start to worry OPEC and the 'Speculate to accumulate' oil price traders.

As soon as Chin/India get hold of this type of car, the world will change.