And with an engine claiming some +40% of thermo-chemical efficiency, they really have told the world they managed to put themselves among major and centuries-old car makers. Yes, at this point they literally shocked the world by simply producing an efficient engine. Like all of them do. Its curiosu because they have also mastered the technology behind electricity on their cars and took the brazilian market as an important step into the occidental world. I'm here to see them, just as I dreamed if JDM arrived in our country in 1980. The japanese were quite more conservative and took measures only in the 1990s, but the chinese are just a player that came in another time. But they did what the japanese should've done in the 1980s here. Instead, they focused on USA and the rest is a kind of sad history.
And so... what that +40% really means? It simply means that internal combustion engines are safe. But the wave of news is kinda interesting if we tie them together to read the air. I've read a little article on The Drive that the USA government probably demands cars to have some basic analogic radios as options. Not exactly a smart expression, but after reading another news in the Japanese Nostalgic Car blog reporting that driving a manual car can keep dementia in check, I really don't have any doubts that we can have the basic functional things back in our cars. As much as Ed's Auto Reviews video about the 1980s Tech Wars on vehicles point out, technology is good but only if it actually helps. Technology was usually a motto to sell performance, but convenience is a world apart from it.
(Here, from the japanese website bestcar, about ageing and driving a manual for keeping the brain healthy: https://bestcarweb.jp/news/entame/1552917)
Some of you probably know about my little boxes that I usually post to characterize why I really enjoy modern cars, and that's strictly based on performance. It took me a little time to find out what were the main components or technologies that I really appreciate on performance. And that's why I still enjoy sports cars. I really don't need a chauffeur in my daily life and I still respect people who need them. See? Just like any japanese, chinese and korean, I got even the efficiency in my mindset to keep the two things alive. When I read about Sony promising to kill completely the physical medial of Playstation, I simply cannot believe that some japanese are kinda occidentally dumb to that point. I really hate the idea of "owning nothing and still being happy". That's only a crap leftists would say even back in the USSR. But, sincerely, that's just another reason to not fall for the FOMO trap.
The ICE, the manual gearbox, the physical CD, the radio and entire dashboard with physical buttons, the performance technology... and many of these things are probably better in staying together than anything stored on a microchip that can run out of battery or fry its internal memory. Even memory cards and old videogame cartridges still can have their batteries changed or improved. Tendency always says things can flip around if things are just too much. So much that even the chinese had to calm down everyone by developing a very efficient combustion engine just to prove they won't die soon or later or in any sort of way. EVs can be good, but only if properly understood and used accordingly. Hybrids are best of both worlds in terms of technology. Prelude, NSX-NC, Insight and Ballade CRZ proved that so many times.
Even fuckin Mazda came back with a WANKEL engine. The MX-30 sold only in Japan. Only in Japan, but the real rennaissance of the little "turbine" piston. Me, as a brazilian, grown and born into the crap of occidental mindset, got rid of the occident a long time ago. I'm not even pleased by those old screams of Greta Thunberg claiming that "someone stole my dreams and my future". She's swedish and I'd really enjoy being born as a swedish and enjoying the large economy of Europe. She's lucky, very very very very lucky to live in one of the countries with a stable human development and social mobility index in the planet. No, Sweden isn't perfect, but its way better than Brazil in all terms. No, holding down pollution is not to be discarded, but not even the priority in very poor african countries.
Oh, but the occidental philosophies are just crap to me nowadays. I'd rather let some fools live by them anyway. Reality will claim the treasures they couldn't enjoy properly. And that includes a very efficient petrol engine. And other things as well.
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário