2018-04-14

Should the Europeans take a look at motorcycles and sidecars as an alternative to the diminishing offer of small economy cars with Diesel engines?

Now that some automakers in Europe are eliminating their Diesel offers in some entry-level segments due to the cost and what is claimed to be an "environmental" concern, and the resale value of an older one goes down due to the increasingly tight traffic restrictions being enforced by local councils from cities such as Madrid, Paris, London and more recently a Federal approval for their enforcement in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf, there are fewer options remaining for those who seek a new car option that would retain some ease of maintenance combined to low fuel consumption. Maybe looking bach at the past, before the introduction of the Volkswagen Beetle and Citroen 2CV, could give Europeans an insight of an easy way to overcome this situation in case they start taking a more serious approach toward sidecars once again. It may not be the most comfortable approach in regard to the inclement weather in the winter, and would mean getting rid of the Diesel engine just like if they just got a regular petrol-powered supermini or a hybrid, but it might be somewhat of a demonstration of resistence toward the dictatorial approach of the European Union and the UN which have a clearly anti-Diesel bias in their environmental regulations. Well, much like the days of the Third Reich when German people couldn't afford to own cars due to their complexity and the simpler air cooling of a motorcycle engine compared to the water cooling which was already prevalent in the car industry and could become troublesome in the winter due to the absence of a modern cooling fluid that could prevent freezing, the average European is once again subject to a bunch of tyrants trying to control every aspect of their lives in the name of a fake "greater good".

1 comment:

Ramiro said...

Seems reasonable.