What is the most impressive thing about cars
Poll: What is the most impressive thing about cars
Total Members Polled: 71
Discussion
I can't vote. It's a balance of all of those things. I've dismissed mingers than sound good and drive well (BMW M6 V10) and I've dismissed cars that look and sound good but drive crap (Alfa Brera).
A car needs to appeal on all levels to some degree to get my money - it's just the weightings that shift around a little depending on the budget and functional requirement.
A car needs to appeal on all levels to some degree to get my money - it's just the weightings that shift around a little depending on the budget and functional requirement.
I think your missing one; reliability/durability.
I think it's incredible that a car can drive the equivalent of around the world without even a service or parts change. It's essentially a repetitive controlled explosion moving over a ton of metal and it can do this for many 100,000 miles with little maintenance. Amazing.
I think it's incredible that a car can drive the equivalent of around the world without even a service or parts change. It's essentially a repetitive controlled explosion moving over a ton of metal and it can do this for many 100,000 miles with little maintenance. Amazing.
I'm not sure about the question, but I love driving and so for me it's the suspension that contributes most to my enjoyment of a car. If you took a great handling car, like a Caterham, and put a dull engine in it that sounded bad and made the car look really awful, I'd still enjoy it. If however you took that Caterham and made it handle badly, but sound great and look great, I wouldn't be interested in the car at all.
Possibly the best thing about cars, is in fact cars. Even cheap cars now
have generally good standards of comfort and reliability. With exception of a few Asian models they all seem to look reasonable too.
I am just impressed by their ability to let people go almost anywhere, anytime, they want to. They really are the magic seven league boots, that magicians from history promised ordinary folk centuries ago. In my book, cars are the finest form of general transport that has so far been devised.
When someone invents something which is truly better, people will switch to it in their millions. To date no one has done this. Perhaps the next thing in transport will be Star Trek style transporters, but I don't see them coming to the ordinary person anytime soon.
have generally good standards of comfort and reliability. With exception of a few Asian models they all seem to look reasonable too.
I am just impressed by their ability to let people go almost anywhere, anytime, they want to. They really are the magic seven league boots, that magicians from history promised ordinary folk centuries ago. In my book, cars are the finest form of general transport that has so far been devised.
When someone invents something which is truly better, people will switch to it in their millions. To date no one has done this. Perhaps the next thing in transport will be Star Trek style transporters, but I don't see them coming to the ordinary person anytime soon.
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