Concept Cars with No Engine
This next post for my blog is on two rather pointless things; concept cars with no engine and 4 x 4s that can't perform well off-road. The other day I was reading a Clarkson book, and he mentioned that somebody had made a concept car with no engine. For once I agree with Clarkson on this - what is the point of a car with no engine? Who, in their right mind, would make such a thing? If anything, this concept "car" is not a car because it does not have an engine and as Wikipedia kindly points out, a car is - "An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor" This shows that a car without an engine is an utterly pointless idea. Even if the car looked beautiful, at the very least, it is a merely the bodywork of a car, to call it a car is an insult. That said, I still like concept cars as some of them are actually good ideas and are well designed (including an engine!). There are new and fresh ideas by major car companies like the new Honda 3R-C which is a battery powered three wheeled, single passenger "car". It looks brilliant and I love the idea, but it is still being liberal to call it a car, nevertheless, there are some concept cars which ARE practical and look good - Take the Alfa Pandion for example, and if you can tell me that it doesn't look beautiful then you have some strange taste...
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