Thursday, November 28, 2013

Cars to Thrill You in 2014

The Wall Street Cheat Sheet (is there any other kind of sheet on Wall Street) has published an article on what it apparently views as the most thrilling cars coming to you in 2014.  Judging by the line-up, we think Wall Street Cheat Sheet probably gets turned on by old women eating bread pudding.  (Wall Street Cheat Sheet:  8 New Cars Coming to Thrill You in 2014)

A good many of these rubbish cars are hybrids but these are even more absurd than the Queen of Rubbishy Hybrids, the Prius.  There will be a Cadillac eCar and it will have a range of thirty-five miles.  And that's high compared to the others.  The Mercedes offering only does fifteen miles.  They tout a Porsche as being impressive as it goes over 200 mph but it switches to electric for low-speed travel ... for eighteen miles.

These cars are not just rubbish, they are worse than the problem they claim they are solving.  The only way these cars would seem green is relative to Chevron's Ecuadorian oil drilling.

If you want to make a serious effort to be green, buy one of the little four-door Eurocruisers as they get an incredibly-high number of miles per gallon without creating yet more environmental problems with huge and poisonous batteries for an electric motor.

Then buy a McLaren for the week-ends.




Or a Jaguar F-Type



Or ...

The King of Them All

a Pagani Zonda



Wall Street Cheat Sheet even listed a Volvo as 'thrilling.'  Yah, right.

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