RE: Diesel-Electric Evo XI Confirmed
Discussion
Mattt said:
Not that I like to quote Clarkson, but this seems fitting:
We may not like the change, but we either embrace the future of performance alternative-fuel vehicles, or get left behind.
If those are my only two alternatives I think I'll just give up driving for fun altogether and take up another hobby. Things may improve in the future but the current crop of hybrid\diesel\whatever so called "performance cars" and the direction that they seem to be taking leave me absolutely cold.Clarkson said:
We are an endangered species, you and I. We lovers of speed. We devotees of power, performance and noise.
“Go away”, we are told, “and take your carbon-fibre and your fire-spitting V12s with you”.
There’s hardly a place out here for us anymore, not amongst all the commuters and congestion. Not in this growing age of safety and restraint, where practicality trumps adrenalin. Where the ratio of miles to the gallon is championed over horsepower to the weight.
The evidence is everywhere. You and I are being squeezed out, pushed aside and hunted down at every hairpin turn.
Welcome to the future of motoring.“Go away”, we are told, “and take your carbon-fibre and your fire-spitting V12s with you”.
There’s hardly a place out here for us anymore, not amongst all the commuters and congestion. Not in this growing age of safety and restraint, where practicality trumps adrenalin. Where the ratio of miles to the gallon is championed over horsepower to the weight.
The evidence is everywhere. You and I are being squeezed out, pushed aside and hunted down at every hairpin turn.
We may not like the change, but we either embrace the future of performance alternative-fuel vehicles, or get left behind.
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