RE: Aston Martin DB6 EV concept: Driven
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Built from scratch, yes (with modern headlamps, no wired wheels, digital dasboard and a few more modern toches); classic butchered - A HUGE NO. I'll spend my 200k on something else, much more modern, thank you very much, still keeping the DB6 as it was intended to be. It's a disrespect to the original and it's makers - my opinion only.
Andy JB]r-B said:
Before I even read the article i was thinking this is too soon, and what does the bloke in charge think: "My concern is that we're too early into this,"
My concern here is especially being British is we start the ball rolling with media coverage of EV's & conversions with plenty of intensive coverage, a few protests, then the Government feel they have to prep a knee jerk response to curb the masses.
Before we know it some Politician overnight without due care or forethought will issue a law banning or costing any car pre EU6 compliant or non EV or such like & the classic/sports market will drop overnight & the british mentality will lap it up, get the publics attention to look as though they are reacting knowing we are all essentially sheep. Short-termism.
I can feel the roller coaster coming. Think diesel gate or immigration pre Brexit vote - histeria the public will latch onto & gain momentum.
^^^This^^^My concern here is especially being British is we start the ball rolling with media coverage of EV's & conversions with plenty of intensive coverage, a few protests, then the Government feel they have to prep a knee jerk response to curb the masses.
Before we know it some Politician overnight without due care or forethought will issue a law banning or costing any car pre EU6 compliant or non EV or such like & the classic/sports market will drop overnight & the british mentality will lap it up, get the publics attention to look as though they are reacting knowing we are all essentially sheep. Short-termism.
I can feel the roller coaster coming. Think diesel gate or immigration pre Brexit vote - histeria the public will latch onto & gain momentum.
Ridiculous, the whole blumin thing, all these people protesting in London recently, the current trend for so called clean electric cars and so on. Don’t get me wrong I do my recycling but god almighty ripping out the heart of a classic Aston - really?! I love cars but mostly I love the sound of the engines in cars, it’s their heart, soul the bit that makes them alive. Lord knows I’ve tried googling for some positive reassurance that we’ll still have engines and fuel to feed them in 20, 30, 40 years time but I always face this same wall of resistance to the ICE. Haven’t we as a species been developing the thing for long enough now that it’s the most efficient it’s ever been? Do the politicians not see what Mazda are doing with their skyactiv x engine? Surly car, engine & oil producers can come together to push this sort of development further forward? Would that not be far less costly than completely redesigning the entire transport system? Evolution rather the revolution is always far safer, easier and less costly for everybody isn’t?
I just can’t help but think that because certain members of society shout they get listened to and politicians want to appease them to appear ‘in touch’ with the people. Well I’m also the bloody people and it’s starting to drive me up the wall. Everyone seems to be jumping on the save the planet bandwagon at the moment yet from what I can gather no one has given a thought to the hundreds and thousands of petrol powered ‘classic’ cars that presumably owners still want to drive post 2040, and I’m not just talking MGB’s and the like but people who are buying the new Aston Martin DBS, these aren’t cheap cars now and in twenty years are still going to command hefty prices, you’re not buying that car 2nd hand in 2039 to find out you can’t use it 4 years later because there’s nowhere to fill it up - so what happens to those? And Ferrari - are they just not going to make engines ever again after 2040?! Howcome on PistonHeads that’s not being discussed?! All the comments I read on here whenever a Tesla article comes up appear to be from people queuing up to buy one, I thought this place was a sanctuary for petrol heads?!
I’m off into my garage now to go and sniff the 97 octane that I keep in a Jerry can for when my blood pressure gets too high!
[quote= Howcome on PistonHeads that’s not being discussed?! All the comments I read on here whenever a Tesla article comes up appear to be from people queuing up to buy one, I thought this place was a sanctuary for petrol heads?!
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Very well put - it's not just the general public, i feel let down by PH the contingent - has its readership really changed over the years, aren't we all supposed to be fans of the internal combustion engine by definition? Come on support the cause, consolidate & stop rolling over to mainstream marketing & cheap short-term politics.
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Very well put - it's not just the general public, i feel let down by PH the contingent - has its readership really changed over the years, aren't we all supposed to be fans of the internal combustion engine by definition? Come on support the cause, consolidate & stop rolling over to mainstream marketing & cheap short-term politics.
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