Too sensible by half
Recently the tone of some of the letters you run has got me wondering whether they’re actually being written by CAR readers. Remarks about the turning radius of cars, the need for torque
figures rather than bhp, and the Festival of the Unexceptional being a refreshing change from the ‘gas guzzlers’ few can afford! Surely these are the reasons we have been buying/reading CAR for many years?
Mike Franklin makes a very pertinent point about the development of hydrogen as a car fuel, as does Steve Hammatt. I have long advocated the development of hydrogen as an alternative to the all-pervasive battery. Those who support electric power make great play on the environmental benefits of the clean power available, but avoid mention of the hideously expensive and rare metals being mined and delivered across the globe in order to make batteries. I agree with Andy Furmidge-Owen on the point that the car industry, and motor racing for that matter, is kow-towing to the green lobby and acting as apologists for enjoying driving a motor car.
I have been a long term reader of – and subscriber to – CAR despite your fixation with Porsche in all its iterations, and more recently the increasing coverage of all things electric and technological. I often wonder how many people who buy cars loaded with tech buried within obscure computer programmes actually use any of it.
Yours is still a fine magazine though. Fabulous article on the Huracan (300-mile test, June 2020); that’s more like it!
Neil Davey