Road Rage. Avoid it or fall for it?
The purpose of any trip into the abyss of the Peak Hour traffic is to in fact arrive, hopefully safely and with a little more to give over the next 12 hours of your day, than a sad regurgitation of your trip around the water cooler.
So why do so many of us arrive so angry?
The Laws Of Physics Are No Respecter Of Persons Or Pocketbooks
The theme song of the 1980s TV show Fame implied that fame would make you live forever. Unfortunately, some celebrities (but not all) seem to have taken that a bit too literally and seem to neglect a number of basic safety precautions when it comes to driving and motoring. The years of the motorcar have seen a number of high-profile fatalities courtesy of a motor vehicle. Here’s a selection, plus how they could have been prevented:
Isadora Duncan: This dancer shocked the stuffy Victorian and Edwardians with her innovative dance style that broke the classical ballet mould as well as corset strings, but died as flamboyantly as she lived when her long, trailing scarf wrapped itself around the back wheels of the Bugatti driven by her car salesman boyfriend and strangled her. This particular type of road fatality is not so likely today, but if you do drive in an open top car, just make sure you take off any really long scarves or at least tuck them in, even if they do look glamorous flowing behind you as speed.
Cash for Clunkers Scheme announced
I won’t write much here as we decided this was important enough to deserve a home page mention 🙂
Suffice to say, the announcement from Julia Gillard over the weekend could be good news for anyone looking to trade-in their old banger for a new fuel-efficient vehicle. Please read the details on our Cash for Clunkers intro page and look forward to more comment and analysis on the rebate on this blog .
Who owns who in a changing global environment?
Who loves the legends? Rover, Lamborghini, Jaguar and Aston Martin are all legends that have experienced a change of hands in recent times. But who belongs with whom these days? The more recent economic climate has forced a number of new automotive amalgamations and buy-outs due to rising costs that have become too great for a number of iconic car manufacturers to manage solo.
Established prestige British marques like Rover and Jaguar are now Indian or Chinese owned. Almost all car manufacturers have needed to look elsewhere for building the cars that they create. So setting up a manufacturing plant in another land where the costs of production are lower makes a lot of sense. The likes of China, Brazil, India, Holland, Spain, Hungary and Argentina are a few of the locations around the world that have witnessed well known brands from Europe and beyond setting up low cost car manufacturing plants at these new locations.
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