Today’s rant is being flung in your general direction from the dizzy height of my high horse where I aim to slay many motorised misconceptions thought up by automotive ignoramuses. Feel free to validate any of these claims with your local petrol head or grease monkey.
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The correct time
Dear car manufacturers, I’m writing to you today with less of a rant than a positive criticism about a trend that has been slowly creeping into luxury cars over the past few years. It isn’t massage seats, head-up displays or infra-red vision, no, it’s the analogue clock.
The confusing badges
Deceit and trickery are around every corner. We get deceived by government, tricked by marketers and fooled into a wonderfully capitalistic lifestyle. The onus is on you to figure out if you want to put up with it or not and there’s a wealth of information (and nonsense) out there to inspire or guide you.
0-100km/h times [2012]
The trump cards
Many people will argue that naught to a hundred times are childish and irrelevant, an automotive statistic only useful at the bar counter or in a pack of trump cards. Others will defend this benchmark test as a measure of a car’s performance, perhaps even reasoning that it’s important to know how quickly a car accelerate away from potential harm, or onto a motorway.
The hidden gems
Despite fluctuating sales the motoring industry has never offered more diversity and consumers are absolutely spoilt rotten for choice when it comes to selecting their next set of wheels. We at NamWheels have compiled a wee list of cars which we believe to be hidden gems.
The best intentions
The basis for my rants is usually an annoying event that becomes downright intolerable or repeats itself too often. The latter occurred just this morning in the shape of two forwarded emails about BMW’s.
Borgwards is my lewe
‘n Ware Borgward-entoesias is die ou wat weier om in ’n BMW te klim!
In die Klein-Karoo het ons destyds net Fords en Chevs geken. Maar hier rondom 1957 het ’n vindingryke ondernemer op Uniondale, ene mnr. Keller, ’n groot, nuwe, diamantvormige kenteken van gebakte emalje in swart, wit en rooi op sy voormalige fabriek se muur aangebring. In die middel van die diamant het ’n naam gepryk waarvan ons nog nooit gehoor het nie: BORGWARD.
Kommentaar: Audi A4
Luister!
Elke jaar verskyn daar in die matrieks se Latyn-vraestel die vraag: Noem twee motors met Latynse name. Die antwoord is natuurlik Audi en Volvo. En dan word die betekenis ook gevra. Vir Audi is dit om te hoor; vir Volvo is dit om te rol!
Kommentaar: Volkswagen Amarok
Amok in die Hok?
Oor minder as ‘n maand gaan die poppe dans as Volkswagen van Suid-Afrika hulle nuwe Amarok bakkie op die mark plaas. Self nog nie die bakkie gesien en ervaar nie maar van my kollegas het al in Suid-Amerika, waar hy sy oorsprong het, met hom gery en was in die wolke oor sy verrigting – en waar hy orals kan gaan.