At long last carmakers are giving us more.
A few weeks back a friend was driving his new Chrysler 300 ($46,000 here: $39,000 in the US) along the Nurburgring of Melbourne (aka the Tullamarine costway) when blow me down if the car didn’t catch fire. How good is that? He didn’t have to pay any extra for the added heater. In fact the good folks at the dealers didn’t even let him in on the secret.
But don’t feel left out just because you have bought a really expensive piece of metal.
A Swiss petrol head was fanging his 350 kw Porsche GT3 ($145,000 in the USA;$210,000 in Europe; $320,000 here) along the A1. He was heading to St Gallen, whose only claim to fame, like most European cities, is an old Abbey. Seriously, where would Euro tourism be without the Catholics? Anyway, there he is heading up to 315km/h when he hears funnier than usual noises from the back (that’s where the engine is in a Porsche). So pulls over and before he could say ‘heilig rauchen’ the Porker is blazing. Constable Plod from the St Gallen plod station turns up, calls the local firies but even with heaps of cheese and water nothing could be done.
But wait there’s more.
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