Alex Unleashed on Cars

  A quick reminder before I begin, this blog focuses on political which can be a very volatile issue so I shall be looking at the topics today from an impartial perspective. I shall also include links to any sources I refer to, in case some accuse me of making them up. Question 1: Is the Conservative Party, really the “party of the motorist”? Short answer. No. they are not. Realistically, no political party is a “party of the motorist” as Labour’s idea for road pricing back in 2003/4 would have charged people for taking children to school or going to work. I sight two examples as to why the Conservatives are not the party of the motorist. Reason 1: Speed cameras were introduced under the Conservatives in 1994 and reason 2: their 2003 manifesto. During 2003 the Conservatives said that if they came to power they would “up the motorway speed limit to 80 MPH, do away with the vast majority of speed cameras, a purge of speed bumps and abolish the M4 bus lane” (*). None of these ...

  The general consensus is that upstart car makers will at some point go bust. This has very much been the case for multiple manufacturers. But if like me, you grew up in the 2000’s then there are 4 upstart brands that both resonated with us and are still here today. Those are: Noble, Ariel, Koenigsegg and Pagani. Interestingly the story of how the Pagani Zonda both took the fight to the established supercar brands and bring about a second supercar renaissance actually starts in the 1980s. Horacio Pagani previously worked for Lamborghini in the composites department so he already knew a lot about making supercars as well as the mechanicals that go into making a good one, he also owns Moden Design which helped provide the carbon fibre used in the Zonda’s construction.   You could actually argue the Zonda C12 came out too late as by 1999 all the 200 MPH hypercars were gone except its main rival, the Lamborghini Diablo. But on to the car. The engine is a 6 litre Mercedes V1...