I have been accused of being materialistic and I can see why. All the cars that I love are high powered German or Italian supermodels. All the watches that I love are also likewise. However I beg to differ from such accusations because I love these things from an engineering point of view. Because these cars are beautifully designed and engineered, there are superb cars and naturally,very sought after and expensive. There's a saying in the aviation world, "if it looks good, it flies good too". My last beloved car was a VW GTi Mk V, it won numerous Car of the Year Award internationally, the TFSi Engine also won awards and the DSG gearbox in still unbeatable and copied from all other makes. The other reason I love this car is how VW is able to give big power to a small package. CO2 emission is incredible for a car with sports inclination. It's less of a guilt trip like saying I have the dessert but will run extra 5 km after that.
However, you will soon realized when crawling in any of the inescapable daily jam in KL that all these power goes to waste! Imagine if all the standstill vehicles shut off their engine for 5 minutes daily! How much fuel we saved and how much carbon foot print we reduced! A few months ago my beloved GTI was hijacked at knife point and as much as I love to replace it with a MK VI, I get a phobia of being hijack again. The quest for a feel good factor while driving not necessary comes from 0-100 dash times or how little body roll exists when I dive into a chicane but from knowing that you are in a seat of future motoring technology and you are saving a ton of Co2 emission a year. Yes ladies and gentlemen you are looking at the proud owner of the latest and last Honda Civic Hybrid in Malaysia! FYI, the Honda CRZ Hybrid just won Japan Car of the Year! I can assure you it's a matter of time before you drive one. So why wait when you can do it now, go on join the green brigade.......don't you know it's cool to be green!
Good article on here.
Good article on here.
