Have you ever noticed most of the cars they make now all look the same?
If you took the badge off many of them, you wouldn’t even know who made them.
It wasn’t always like this. Back in the day they had hot hatches like the iconic Mark 1 Volkswagen Golf GTI and the Peugeot 205 GTI.
They even had solid cars like the Volkswagen Passat (before the rise of the robots).
Growing up, I used to dream about the cars I could own in the future. These days I walk around, and to be honest with you I’m not inspired at all. I think most modern cars look absolutely terrible.
Cars at one time were a thing of aesthetics and beauty. They were works of art rolling along the tarmac.
Who wouldn’t want to own a BMW 325i back in the eighties?
Now what is it that the manufacturers crank out? Pieces of pressed out junk! Now, they’re even expecting people to plug these things in and start charging them up with electricity. At this rate they’ll be asking you to turn into Fred Flintstone and do all the work yourself.
Yabba Dabba Doo (It Yourself?)
It’s like we’re all going backwards. People that don’t know any different will buy into all this. The brainwashed masses will also buy into this net zero narrative that the government are currently backing. Just as it reaches critical mass (if it gets that far) they’ll bait and switch you into the next superior solution (you know, the one that keeps the punters buying what rolls off the production line).
Let me tell you one thing though, this is not the future. Electric cars in their current form are not the final solution and if I had my way the combustion engine would continue for a long time to come.
Progress is not plugging your electric car, which probably also looks terrible, into a charging port just so you can drive around in it for a few miles before it starts gasping for a recharge. Prior to this, people filled up with fuel and just drove off. It’s a solution that simply works.
Before you start lambasting petrol and diesel car owners, let’s just address the elephant in the room, which is all those planes in the sky that don’t run on electric. They make a mockery of the ‘footprint’ that cars leave behind, so let’s sort that out first (hint: they won’t).
As for me, I don’t buy into this great electric revolution. I’m a petrolhead at heart who also happens to think that the older cars were works of art, powered by combustion engines, and I will think that way until the day I’m in a coffin pushing up daisies.
What has happened to the manufacturers of motor vehicles? They’ve all sold out for corporate profit and that makes me sad because there was a time that products were also made by passionate people that cared, at least to some degree.
Thankfully, I can go back in time and buy the vehicles that were made and powered by combustion engines for a considerable time to come. Maybe even the rest of my life.
The sheep can go and purchase an electric vehicle, kidding themselves that they somehow contribute to their footprint in society while Boeing Airplanes fly past them overhead.
It seems to me, most people are no longer capable of independent thought and watch too much news on television (I don’t say that to patronise anyone that reads this, it’s just my view). I will leave you with that observation as I sign off this most recent post.
Long live the cars of yesteryear such as the Mark 1 Volkswagen Golf GTI. An era when a designer of merit designed a vehicle and the manufacturers fulfilled the brief, creating a work of art that had a practical use.
Matt Monro knew what time it was…