It has been getting more and more under my skin as time has gone on, with
motoring manufactures producing cars with no purpose or reason other than to
fill a gimmick market for people with too much money or too little sense.
These worthless monstrosities haunt the roads in all their overpriced
“facebooked” up hype. They serve no purpose; no segment of the market no
ingenuity. They are there simply to exploit the person with money and no sense,
the person that likes to buy clothing from a certain brand that puts rhinestones
and big gaudy tigers on their clothing. So I will have to pick on two cars to
make my point, two cars that have been bugging me since their first inception
and every time I see some dim-witted person driving them around. Drum rolls are
not needed here more like a firing squad, for the Polo Cross and the Toyota
Prius.
So let start with the Cross, so just when you thought that the Polo range was
too small and limited VW bring on the Cross, an off-roading Polo. So when you
think of and off road car you think rugged and tough with plenty of ground
clearance and 4WD. Not a Polo with slightly raised suspension, and some plastic
bits covering the bottom half of the body work. Not to mention the on-off road
17” low profiles that makes it that much easier to hit the beaten track and
absorb those rocks and ditches. And when you think off road you know, just know
it must come with a 4WD system of some sorts like the Suzuki Jimmy that cost
considerably less… Well no, the standard gearbox is good enough with front wheel
drive to boot, once again just what you need when you hit the muddy hills and
snowy roads. Okay I know I am going on a bit but, when a Standard Polo 1.6 costs
around R20, 000 less and is just as capable off-road as the Cross and probably
more suited to doing the dual role you have to ask yourself what’s going on. The
reason I think they called it the Cross is because that’s what you’ll be when
the light bulb finally turns on.
Now for the Toyota Prius, an eco friendly car for people that want to save
the world one litre of fuel at a time. Well no not really let’s be honest it is
shockingly ugly, like the designers got bored at the roof and gave up. Yes, I
know it’s to help aerodynamics but a Ferrari 458 Italia is aerodynamic and
doesn’t look like aerodynamically shaped loaf of bread. The goal of the car is
to save fuel with its hybrid drive but, it doesn’t. You’ll never ever hit the
Toyota’s claims, well unless you drive everywhere at 20km/h downhill. You would
be much better off buying a Euro hatch with tiny a turbo petrol and much better
looks. But I suppose then you will not get the adoring looks from the tree
hugging ladies out there. In my mind the only hybrid that should be allowed on
this planet is the Jaguar C-X75 which uses jet turbines to power electric motors
and the Audi R18 e-tron Quattro Le Mans car. These serve a purpose push the
limits and progress us as humans, the latter only seems to show how dumb we
still can be and how easily we are convinced. This all knowing that your are
destroying the environment even faster by buying this “eco-friendly”
nonsense
So to sum up you have to really, really know nothing about cars at all to
spend your hard earned cash on these gimmick cars. And I know that these aren’t
the only ones out there, I just chose to pick on these two because, I see so
many of them out there. They are cars that serve no purpose other than to rob
you of your hard earned money and make you seem extremely gullible. You have to
completely believe the brochure and everything the salesman tells you. While
ignoring facts, research and commonsense walk right past everything else (which
there is a lot of) and go for a “Gimmick Car”. I know there are going to be
people throwing toys out of their cot that I insulted their car that they have
spent their hard earned money on. Well “Mr Eco Smug” and “Ms Urban off-roader”
if you are going to do the crime then be prepared for the hail of sniggers and
pointing fingers, as passers-by stair at you. And I don’t mean stare like
ooooooh there goes a Lamborghini but, the other kind like you’re back at school
and you have a piece of toilet paper sticking out of your pants… You have been
Warned even though I know that no one will take a blind bit of notice of this
and these will still continue to fly out of the showrooms and clog up our
roads.
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