I am very worried
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I am a fairly regular member on this board but I have created a new account for this post as I know this might be a little controversial 
It dawned on me in a pit garage a few weeks back, standing behind two race-prepared 328i's, one of which was pouring steam out the exhaust with the team trying to get it repaired for the impending race. Another E46 M3 in a similar position, but no complaints from me - making the most amazing sound from it's heavily tuned S54. This is why I love cars - the fumes, noise. Internal combustion.
So why am I worried you wonder? Because I am 19 years old, and like it or not electric cars are my future and those of my generation.
What will this scene be in 20 years time? Plugging a cable in and sitting with a laptop? Changing batteries? What kind of future is this for enthusiasts? Where is the drama, the theatre, the passion?
Yes, I am sure that your Tesla will destroy an ICE supercar in the traffic light GP. Yes, I'm sure the world will breath better as a result. Yes, I'm sure your little electric motor is 14.856% more efficient than my gas guzzler - but I don't care. For me, the electric motor in a motor vehicle is the nightmare I have always feared. Efficiency, making sense. I don't want my car to make sense, I want to smell it, hear it, have feelings for it.
Why am I worried you ask? I have years to experience ICE?
Yes, I'm sure I do, but how will I finance it? I have 4 more years in education, more years to accumulate enough money from working to be able to afford what? A hybridised modern ICE? A 4 cylinder turbocharged electrified MPG'd ecobox? I don't want that, I want V6, straight 6, V10, V12, V8. I want proper motoring, not this cut down gimped nonsense. Hybrid? Electric? By the time I am 35 the world will have moved on to electric, but I will try my very hardest to not.
So this is why I post this. f
k the MPG, fk the £450.67 saving we will make per year. I don't care whether I have to drive a £1500 mondeo shed, a V6 diesel S Class waftomatic; experience proper ICE whilst it lasts. Make it work, because I can guarantee we will sorely miss them once they are gone.
Oh, and for the love of God PLEASE can someone make hydrogen extraction feasible before the Earth succumbs to the joy-killer.
It dawned on me in a pit garage a few weeks back, standing behind two race-prepared 328i's, one of which was pouring steam out the exhaust with the team trying to get it repaired for the impending race. Another E46 M3 in a similar position, but no complaints from me - making the most amazing sound from it's heavily tuned S54. This is why I love cars - the fumes, noise. Internal combustion.
So why am I worried you wonder? Because I am 19 years old, and like it or not electric cars are my future and those of my generation.
What will this scene be in 20 years time? Plugging a cable in and sitting with a laptop? Changing batteries? What kind of future is this for enthusiasts? Where is the drama, the theatre, the passion?
Yes, I am sure that your Tesla will destroy an ICE supercar in the traffic light GP. Yes, I'm sure the world will breath better as a result. Yes, I'm sure your little electric motor is 14.856% more efficient than my gas guzzler - but I don't care. For me, the electric motor in a motor vehicle is the nightmare I have always feared. Efficiency, making sense. I don't want my car to make sense, I want to smell it, hear it, have feelings for it.
Why am I worried you ask? I have years to experience ICE?
Yes, I'm sure I do, but how will I finance it? I have 4 more years in education, more years to accumulate enough money from working to be able to afford what? A hybridised modern ICE? A 4 cylinder turbocharged electrified MPG'd ecobox? I don't want that, I want V6, straight 6, V10, V12, V8. I want proper motoring, not this cut down gimped nonsense. Hybrid? Electric? By the time I am 35 the world will have moved on to electric, but I will try my very hardest to not.
So this is why I post this. f
k the MPG, fk the £450.67 saving we will make per year. I don't care whether I have to drive a £1500 mondeo shed, a V6 diesel S Class waftomatic; experience proper ICE whilst it lasts. Make it work, because I can guarantee we will sorely miss them once they are gone.Oh, and for the love of God PLEASE can someone make hydrogen extraction feasible before the Earth succumbs to the joy-killer.
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