As a society, we have traded public health and safety for many of our individual freedoms. Children are vaccinated, water is chlorinated, pollution is regulated, and housing conditions are required to meet a minimum standard. Overall, it’s safe to say that these have benefited mankind and were generally bright ideas for a civilized nation like ours.
But one health and safety advancement draws the ire of petrolheads like no other. It’s a profound indignation that can compare only to that one Thanksgiving at my parents’ house when I brought over the hottest, skankiest girl I could find. It is, of course, the type of purity and driver interaction that petrolheads like to bore their unimpressed girlfriends with. That je ne sais quoi, the X Factor, “it”. We like to think that cars today don’t have it, so they’re nothing more than boring whitegoods and appliances. Unlike the good ol’ days, when cars were alive, men were men, and you could smoke on an airplane. Or so the petrolhead maxim goes.
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