I’ve got a undercurrent of anger washing around within me. It’s feeding on the global anthropogenic climate change crisis, the impending actual war to follow the tech war we are currently experiencing, the right wing swing of the population following over a decade of lack of investment in people by the tory government, the lack of humanity some people seem to be experiencing and, finally, the car industry.
The amount of energy and carbon emissions that goes into building a new car generally far outweighs the amount of carbon emissions released by driving that car. To save the planet and carbon emissions the car industry should be shut down. The concepts of personal travel devices should be updated and revised with mass transport and government funded networks of buses, trains, trams and similar. Electric vehicles aren’t going to save the planet, they are only going to save the car industry. We should be considering emissions not just from use but also the manufacturing of all things. An electric bus moving many people would be so efficient and would probably last a long time. Private vehicles should be banned.
We should have people using small cars. Cars that are light. Cars that use little carbon to create them. Gah, the whole idea of bigger cars and electric heavy cars is stupid. I’ve become frustrated at people who have large cars but don’t seem able to drive them on the roads we have. Our roads aren’t designed for massive vehicles. Cars are too big. Fucking make smaller cars you manufacturers. I genuinely despise all the large new cars being made for the roads. While we are at it perhaps we should have a state owned power system so that we can invest in new electric infrastructure so that we can actually charge all the vehicles people seem to want.
Now, to the actual point of this post. The uglification of cars. Too many cars are fugly these days. I’ve got some examples to show you to make my point. Firstly, the Ford Capri. A classic from my childhood and a car with style and fashion. I saw a new Capri recently and I can’t tell you how upset I was at the blandness of the design and the size of the vehicle. Absolute shit.
Another manufacturer with classic designs is Lotus. A small autocompany from Norwich. They made some of the most gorgeous cars from the 70s and 80s. What do they make now? Some nice looking cars, but also another heap of shit.
I have one last example of the shittification of car brands using MG. A classic British brand who made lovely, gorgeous cars.
This MG is too big. Looks like shit and is surprisingly popular. I see a lot of them around. Now, possibly some explanation of why these cars are shit and no surprise – it’s capitalism. Many brands have been bought by Chinese companies and I don’t really mind that. If you want capitalism then you have to accept that some companies will go bankrupt and people will buy brands and use them however they want.
Geely owns Lotus, Volvo, Polestar, Smart. That a good set of brands for the European market.
SAIC owns MG and has joint ventures with VW.
Ford have fucked things purely by themselves.
If you want to see ugly cars have another look at offerings from Jaguar (owned by Tata who also owns Daewoo, Iveco and Land Rover), Lamborghini’s Urus (owned by VW group).
TLDR – cars are too big and also very fucking ugly.