We all knew this transition to electrification and hybridization was around the corner. But it still doesn't stop this video from being the most depressing video ever.
The Ferrari F8 from the beginning was only planned to be manufactured for one year, they extended it a little more due to the amount of sales that far exceeded expectations!
Ford's reasons for cancelling the Fiesta and Focus ring only half true to me. Sure, there's a shift in preferences to crossovers and it's harder to make a profit on smaller cars. But Europe's best selling car in 2022 was the Peugeot 208 and the Toyota Yaris and Opel/Vauxhall Corsa aren't doing to badly either. I feel that after they got in trouble in 2008 Ford decided to focus (no pun intended) on the to them more important North American market and European models got only minor updates, which leads to them looking and feeling outdated now. Nothing wrong with that decision (you might disagree if you work for Ford Europe or are a dealer), but just don't say you cancel an iconic car like the Fiesta because "people don't want hatchbacks anymore" when that obviously isn't true.
Again, best selling car for twelve years up until a fucking pandemic hit. Cancelling the best selling car just because of a worldwide event makes no sense. As a Fiesta owner, hell a CELEBRATION EDITION owner, I'm gonna forever be pissed about it.
@@yissibiiytehardly - emissions rules and ever-tightening ‘safety’ requirements from the likes of Euro NCAP have made the already tiny margins on small cars non-existent.
I wouldn't mind if Ferrari/Lambo and the ilk were to remain gas powered. As long as they were built in limited numbers, say a few thousand, to minimize the damage of their emissions. I'm not sure what those numbers are, but they gotta limit emissions in some way. Via tailpipe reductions or miles driven, or numbers sold.
The sound of high performance cars cannot be replicated for the driver experience in an EV. The roar, the pops and bangs from the exhaust... are what makes driving enthusiasts enjoy their cars. Plus, all high-end EV models now, like the Audi E-Tron GT... dont look as aggressive and visually appealing as an R8 V10. I hope design on premium cars ignores aerodynamics and analytics in favour of looks and desirability.
I am still perplexed that many are diving head first into the electric motor vehicle and yet it still to me appears to be a car that is only good as a lease and not outright purchase as the Battery life when I discuss this with sales people they often gloss over and want to ignore the fact if you were to purchase at three years old and sell on again at five years or so ( what I tend to do) if an electric car had done five years it will be out of battery warranty and a battery replacement May at this time cost more than your five old vehicle!!! Maybe in time to come if battery packs become cheaper it may make more sense for now I am sticking for as long as possible with my petrol car….
Electric cars still don't offer performance on par with ICEs in most actual racing applications, they don't have the battery capacity and they overheat quickly. Any sort of real drag racing is dominated by ICEs, and any sort of actual circuit racing (F1, Indy, NASCAR, etc) is still dominated by ICEs.
Once again I count myself as very lucky to have been born in '79. Grew up in the 80s Partied in the 90s Bought property in the 00s Had/have some amazing cars through the last 3 decades Will retire after the NHS does Will be dead before petrol is 💪
I wouldn't necessarily say people are changing their tastes from saloon's & hatchbacks to SUV's. It's nearly all that's available to buy now. I've always bought Japanese, & mainly old Nissan's because they served me well, but I have to go back to 2006 to find their last full size affordable hatch in the UK (the P12 Primera, which I had until 2021). I changed to a Mazda 6 because I don't want a Puke or a Qashqai. Mazda have now stopped the 6, so eventually I'll have to find something else. We're looking at replacing my wife's 2005 Fiesta, & a Qashqai was looked into because she's fed up of being bullied on the road because she's driving one of the smallest cars out there, & you can't see past all the stupidly huge cars on the road. She doesn't like SUV's either.
I'm happy that, for the time being there are still NA, combustion GT's and sports coupes. Electrification doesn't bother me, but I hope that as long as I am still safely able to drive myself I can continue to enjoy two doors and three pedals.
My first car was Ford Fiesta. Man I missed that thing. It had so many scratches on it, once someone hit it and we could not find the dent. "I loved my rust bucket"
Thoughts on rumors the car industry doesn't actually believe in EV's and they want to look into other options but that politicians can't lose face after pushing this for 10 years? Hear this coming up in multiple automotive podcasts
I’ve seen comments in videos about Porsche and a few others have been developing synthetic fuel and apparently they’ve cracked it but it’s not cost effective right now but it’s early days
Saddest car video I have seen recently. With all the electrification and hybridization, I am losing interest in cars. The M3 touring which I have on pre-order, I plan to keep for over 10 years, might be the last car I buy.
I think there must be yet another Huracán, Lambo said the Ultimae (that literally means "last") was the last Aventador and just today they unveiled the Invencible/Auténtica which is they swear is the last N/A V12 ever But, definitely the saddest lost for me is the GR 86 :( 💔
Great video - 2007 the year the GT-R came out - madness. About time for the Aventador that as I mentioned in my video finally will be replaced by the Revuelto very soon 🙌🏽
I'll be getting both ... pick up a classic car and an electric car if I need it in the future ... silly to be dogmatic about it ... make best use of both.
Ford announced in 2017 that they are going to stop making cars altogether, by that I mean saloons, estates, hatchbacks. They will only make trucks and electric mustangs going forward. I’m not sure we fell out of love with hatchbacks not in Europe anyway, they just rammed SUVs down our throats and said take it or leave it.
Unfortunately, SUV's are easier to make comply with crash regulations, because they are just bigger so can fit more safety features. I also object to the intelligent speed assist and, especially, the 'intelligent' lane assist now mandatory: We had a rented Kia Cee'd (70 reg) and bounced over a pothole. The car subsequently decided that it had entered the opposite lane and fought (very hard) to steer onto the wrong side of the road. It did it quite a few times later, e.g., those lines on the road for speed cameras made it try and crash into a ditch and, on a B road, it would constantly pick between the two sides of the road because of the varying width. I've driven in Germany, France and Italy, where they have a white line down the centre and along the edge of their much wider roads, and I can see this technology working there, however, here, in the UK, our roads are older and of varying width, so this technology doesn't work here. It's an EU law that came in after Brexit, I'm not a brexiteer but didn't we leave the EU and their regulatory nonsense to avoid just this?
Artura is not the replacement for 720s. The 7-series isn’t being axed either. 720 is having a (minor) update to 750s. Originally planned for April ‘23; now aiming October (‘23, I hope) :)
@@DevKumar-bi2ld It's advertised on the official McLaren website, what source you even asking for ... Look up things yourself for once. How hard is to go to the official website and read about it ...
@@jameswillard1 Yes and, personally, I wouldn't hold my breath either for that date. MTC is full force focussed on catching up of 2 years Artura delays. On the bright side: rumour has it McLaren plans to release the 750s Coupe and Spider at the same time. Would make sense too, as opposed to their usual 2 year interval between these 2 versions, as they don't have that many years left to replace the 7-series with the new version (hybrid).
@@maesmichael that makes sense, unfortunately my local Mclaren dealership was telling me that a lot of interest died off on the Artura because of the delays and as a result there are a lot of unsold cars arriving in the US, so hopefully for Mclaren’s sake inventory doesn’t start stacking up like before Covid requiring big discounts to move them
I will be driving petrol cars/motorbikes for as long as possible even that means hanging on to my old one. Part of the joy for me is the sound of the engine especially on my motorbike no matter how fast or slow it is. EV’s equal boring and clinical for me, plus don’t get me started on how environmentally friendly they are supposed to be, really, I don’t think so!!
@@robertmandl9326 The internet cloud is vastly more environmentally damaging to the planet due too the vast amount of energy and water needed, check it out and we’re all guilty of it because obviously we all use data. But all we hear about is how damaging ICE vehicles are, when in reality it will only make tiny difference to global warming if we all drove EV’s, so small in fact it would be insignificant.
Great Video and a sad reflection on the world we live in. Instead of investing in totally ungreen despite the marketing hype electric cars. We should be finding ways to convert existing petrol and diesel vehicles to be able to use a clean fuel and in transition stage as that develops having some sort filter able to extract carbon and nitrogen etc from exhaust. The industry is listening to the wrong people and are developing vehicles with batteries that are unable to be recycled and whose raw products extraction are destroying huge areas of land and causing irreversible environmental damage.
I can't help thinking some of the move to SUVs is becasue it's easier to hide a battery in the space generated by giving a higher car than in a saloon.
So. Not everyone wants an SUV. It's in every comments section. That's an awful lot of customers. SUV are favoured because they are easy to electrify and the likes of Autotrader push the agenda without pushing back. Be careful with the hero worship on TH-cam as there are strings being pulled behind the scenes
SUV’s are great, they provide me with endless amusement when they park in the allocated parking bays, at my local hospital, and find that they can’t open the doors to get out as they’re too wide.
Yep, the efficiency EV allows is worth the unknown risks and challenges. Makers will refine settings to allow donuts and burning rubber, along F1 fake sounds inside and out.
I had a fiesta sad it is no more available. If i were the Sultan of Brunei i would have some taste full cars. Nissan GTR with a V 10 twin turbocharger Audi R8 with V12 Aventador with supercharged Miata with LS V8 RX 7 with 4 rotors and a twin turbocharger BTW your red jackets looks awesome.
The order book for the F8 actually closed in the last quarter of 2021. It is just the run out of production that's left. Such a shame about the Fiesta. My 1st car when I was 17 in 88 was a 1980 mk1 1.1 Popular Plus. KCP940W. What great memories driving all over Yorkshire of a weekend in it. Etc.😉😉👍👍
I've always had my doubt towards this "so-called" fleet emission. If most of these cars are garage queens any way, why bother having a fleet emission target on them. No driving, no emission, and you can't do better than truly having zero emissions from them when no energy is consumed. It's like putting a fleet emission on an LV hand bag. What's the point.
If you have a car that you don´t drive, its not a car, its a statue shaped like a car. Aka: pointless indeed. Why even build the damn thing then. Waste of materials. And your "math" doesn´t add up, as resources (read: co2 pollution) went into making that paper weight in the first place.
@@robertmandl9326 But there is nothing regulating the manufacturing impact. It's about the use-phase impact as it stands. So no, you are the one who can't read. Not to mention the manufacturing impact is negligible compared with a common use case scenario for a car. There are tons of stuff getting manufactured for no reasons. Do all of them have "fleet emissions" regulation? No. A for effort for you to try to move the goal post. Didn't work though.
@@jkliao6486 There are indeed many things produced with little use. But before you start give out ratings you might wanna check how many cars there are and their proven impact on the climate.
@@jkliao6486 Already did. Over time, EV wins.They sure are not the ultima ratio but they damn sure are a step in the right direction and better than ICE. And theres enough facts on hand to prove this. Sorry they dont cater to your inner 5-year-old who desperately needs his car to go VROOOM. But then again deciding on an EV requires an adult mind, so I guess youre not the target audience anyway.
Every day I hate crossovers and SUVs more. In the past if you liked it you could choose between a hatchback/saloon or an SUV, your money your choice, but nowdays they're focing you to buy SUVs/crossovers if you want a new car
The problem for me is not electrification, I’m fine with electric cars (sort of), but my problem is more so us being forced to transition into electrification.
Two radically different technologies doing the exact same job, one slow, complicated, loud, dirty and inefficient, the other the opposite? Yeah, they could keep going in parallel. I mean, lots of people still drive steam engines, right?
@@grahamthompson5581 looks like you just described a lot of the sports. electrification has its own issues and doesn't improve on the issues it's trying to solve as much as the people making the change think they do. even if it is a good decision, forcing others simply isn't something you could or should do.
Of course we all know that the untold sustainable solution is making mobility accessible only to the very few rich people, but I am sure that Godzilla will do what it does best: punishing mankind for their mistakes!
Should of pushed back when we had the chance. Don't buy them. Don't fall for the Autotrader hype. Force people to have a proper and open discussion about their motoring needs. The likes of Rory have a fleet. V8, diesel etc which he's admitted in a previous comment to myself within the Autotrader comments sections. Nice for him. Who cares about the rest of us ? If car firms have these higher priced models sitting going nowhere they will soon wake up
@@robsmall6466 Doesn't matter, just like the scalpers, where they only need one person to benefit, these cars are targeted at rich people, and few of those will be car enthusiasts. No disrespect to them, as they have earned their money fair and square, few of these cars will be driven as intended, and all of them will be sold in no time.
@@jkliao6486 It is indeed the age of FOMO. Hopefully the bad blood it creates will see car companies adopt the affordable for all stance in the future ( obviously talking about the likes of Ford, Toyota etc and not exotic brands )
@@eugenux Legislation is definitely to blame. Current car prices are in part due to EV R&D. Brands have to be careful though. Too similar and they will drive ( excuse the pun ) themselves to extinction. Only have to look at the electronics industry to see that. People with disposable income will find something else to spend it on. Home improvements, holidays, whatever. Once your loyal customers gets another interest - good luck in getting them back
ive already acted on it but my opinion remains the same: between crossovers, hybridisation, CVTs and eco turbo engines, ICE cars seem to more crappier with every new model. mmight as well give up and go electric if you are buying anything new.
The Artura is not 720s successor the successor of 720s hasn't been announced yet and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be more powerful than the Artura,the Artura is replacing the 570s
To be fair, Ford itself is deadwood that needs cutting away. If the future (present?) is vastly over-priced cars, who's going to throw that money away on a Ford? Not me. The irony is that full transport electrification here in the UK is a distant pipedream. The current infrastructure is creaking at the seams and the plans for upgrading it are in disarray - the national government are only interested in virtue signalling on the world stage and local governments are only interested in fleecing drivers under the guise of the green agenda and clean air. RIP the UK. RIP common-sense. RIP affordable cars. RIP vehicles that are fit for purpose.
I like the Cadillac escalade ESV from 2020 for seeing that it has a Cadillac escalade ESV from 2020 with a fuel other than diesel, gasoline, and electric. 😭
Don’t believe the EV hype, there’s a reason why F1 isn’t doing it. Synthetic fuels are the future, there was a top gear special on a Porsche GT3 and Lambo SVJ running on fully synthetic fuel. The conversion process will be very easy, that is the way we will go
I've always been a petrolhead, since I was a little kid. Lately though I've been getting increasingly frustrated and disappointed with the direction the industry is headed. SUVs, pointless electronic gadgets that will render a car useless in ten years, mindless swerve towards electric cars when battery technology still sucks...and mandatory driver 'assistance' technology??? Come on! That crap can be annoying as f***, if not downright dangerous. Save for a few exceptions from a handful of automakers, I feel my passion is only being kept alive by the rising restomod wave, because new cars rarely excite me anymore.
The most dangerous thing on the road was and still is a human. Particularly those that enjoy their powerful vehicles a little too much. You can thank them for mandatory safety systems - people had a choice, and quite many of them chose to be mindless, careless a**holes, injuring and killing often innocent bystanders on the way. So your car brakes for you before you could run over a child? Daaamn, be sure to turn that shit off bro, who wants to safe a life when you can have unrestricted fun! Moron.
@@robertmandl9326Watch out guys! A morally superior being! Driver assistance systems are annoying all the time, no need to be driving like a lunatic to find that out, and they aren't nowhere near mature enough to be made mandatory. What about your car stopping dead in its tracks in the middle of the highway because another car merged into your lane in front of you just a little too close, and the system can't tell that from a real obstacle? Oh yeah, that sure makes me feel a lot safer. Go f* yourself.
@@johanssonb Havent had that happen to me or heard about such an instance. And thanks for proving my point, a driver merging THAT close qualifies nicely for what I said. Lastly, if morally superior means not being a thick-headed backwards hick then I guess youre right - which would be a compliment for me and I accept it as such, thanks.
@@xaviermathura You initially said "All good cars" - and that is incorrect. There are good cars which are not petrol based and they sure look healthy to me.
People switching to SUVs is something I'll never understand. Back in the day we had large cars to go camping in the countryside but today large cities are full of them. Especially here in Europe it looks grotesque on our narrow roads and tight parking spaces. Anyway, as someone who drove both ICE and electric, it's way more fun to keep the ICE cars around (God bless my BMW Z3), especially if you're a gearhead. I'd appreciate a few more decades until they go extinct.
BOTTOM LINE IS... No.. You might not be able to buy these cars (and more fine cars that get cancelled over the next few years) new... BUT... They will STILL be legal to drive for many many many long and enjoyable years yet. It'll be like driving a Triumph Spitfire/Stag, MG B's, Midgets and other classics, a - "Yeah? You drive all electric? Well, I drive a 'Proper car' so up yours!" Hahaha... 🤔😏😉👍 😎🇬🇧
Are EVs really the future and we are journalists not really covering the sad reality of the tech such as real world range, poor build quality, glitches that come with the digital tech inside, poor charging infrastructure that hardly charges in the said speeds or even charge at, the real cost of building evs, the minerals involved and the labor, how charging times are impossible to reduce, the real depletion to battery life and range and many more realities that go with the tech, and many more may argue that ice cars started the same way but again ignore the fact that motoring itself has evolved so much to cater for any engine technology and if it is feasible it should not be starting from the same level as motoring did in the 18th century nor would the world feasibly handle the inconvenience in a mass scale and its unfair to bully people to transition to a field that is not truly ready or even ready for the numbers
The Aventador will ALWAYS be in my Top10 dream cars, when Jeremy Clarkson, among others, damn near broke his neck launching the thing, I knew that car was gonna be one of the last great V12s....
What if having bought a car you can bo longer buy due to restrictions, before there were restrictions? Now it's illegal to drive it or what? I would not care.
The super car manufacturers should be exempt from all this emissions / noise rubbish. They are rare cars, probably garaged and driven now and again. Save ICE performance cars!!! I will resist electric until my dying days!!!
So the dream cars are going and affordable cars are going yet 2nd hand car dealers are refusing to take EV's as trade ins because they can't sell them. Interesting times ahead.
We all knew this transition to electrification and hybridization was around the corner. But it still doesn't stop this video from being the most depressing video ever.
you mean the governments are forcing manufacturers to do..based on the business of climate change when humans are never in charge of weather
I also agree.
Being inspiring*
Internal Combusting is disgustingly inefficient
The Ferrari F8 from the beginning was only planned to be manufactured for one year, they extended it a little more due to the amount of sales that far exceeded expectations!
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It could last longer tho
One of my favourite ferraris
weird that they even made it as the 488 was still quite new when the F8 came out
@@lhmocs6368 I think it's just so the last 3.9 TT V8 could have at least 2 generations before it'd axed
Ford's reasons for cancelling the Fiesta and Focus ring only half true to me. Sure, there's a shift in preferences to crossovers and it's harder to make a profit on smaller cars. But Europe's best selling car in 2022 was the Peugeot 208 and the Toyota Yaris and Opel/Vauxhall Corsa aren't doing to badly either. I feel that after they got in trouble in 2008 Ford decided to focus (no pun intended) on the to them more important North American market and European models got only minor updates, which leads to them looking and feeling outdated now. Nothing wrong with that decision (you might disagree if you work for Ford Europe or are a dealer), but just don't say you cancel an iconic car like the Fiesta because "people don't want hatchbacks anymore" when that obviously isn't true.
They will be irrelevant in the near future & will probably pull their entire range except for the Transit vans
Again, best selling car for twelve years up until a fucking pandemic hit.
Cancelling the best selling car just because of a worldwide event makes no sense. As a Fiesta owner, hell a CELEBRATION EDITION owner, I'm gonna forever be pissed about it.
It was a shocking decision for me.
The Chinese automakers are going to seize this small vehicle segment market share big time.
I don't even want cars anymore. Nevermind the models... I am done.
Petrol head for life lol Thanks Rory, you're the only one who can give so much info covering so many cars in under 15 minutes.
Same here, but in the future car companies are going to stop services for petrol and diesel driven cars. So, we are screwed.
@@TheRohnjackson yes we are bro, it's fu**ed up.
Crap that regulatory requirements rather than consumer preferences are driving so many of these changes.
For hatches and sedans? Yes it is 100% because of consumer preferences
@@yissibiiyte Agreed. I'm talking about exotics primarily.
@@yissibiiytehardly - emissions rules and ever-tightening ‘safety’ requirements from the likes of Euro NCAP have made the already tiny margins on small cars non-existent.
I wouldn't mind if Ferrari/Lambo and the ilk were to remain gas powered. As long as they were built in limited numbers, say a few thousand, to minimize the damage of their emissions. I'm not sure what those numbers are, but they gotta limit emissions in some way. Via tailpipe reductions or miles driven, or numbers sold.
The sound of high performance cars cannot be replicated for the driver experience in an EV.
The roar, the pops and bangs from the exhaust... are what makes driving enthusiasts enjoy their cars.
Plus, all high-end EV models now, like the Audi E-Tron GT... dont look as aggressive and visually appealing as an R8 V10.
I hope design on premium cars ignores aerodynamics and analytics in favour of looks and desirability.
You’ll see a lot by popular demand special editions soon
I am still perplexed that many are diving head first into the electric motor vehicle and yet it still to me appears to be a car that is only good as a lease and not outright purchase as the Battery life when I discuss this with sales people they often gloss over and want to ignore the fact if you were to purchase at three years old and sell on again at five years or so ( what I tend to do) if an electric car had done five years it will be out of battery warranty and a battery replacement May at this time cost more than your five old vehicle!!! Maybe in time to come if battery packs become cheaper it may make more sense for now I am sticking for as long as possible with my petrol car….
Electric cars still don't offer performance on par with ICEs in most actual racing applications, they don't have the battery capacity and they overheat quickly. Any sort of real drag racing is dominated by ICEs, and any sort of actual circuit racing (F1, Indy, NASCAR, etc) is still dominated by ICEs.
Once again I count myself as very lucky to have been born in '79.
Grew up in the 80s
Partied in the 90s
Bought property in the 00s
Had/have some amazing cars through the last 3 decades
Will retire after the NHS does
Will be dead before petrol is
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I wouldn't necessarily say people are changing their tastes from saloon's & hatchbacks to SUV's. It's nearly all that's available to buy now. I've always bought Japanese, & mainly old Nissan's because they served me well, but I have to go back to 2006 to find their last full size affordable hatch in the UK (the P12 Primera, which I had until 2021). I changed to a Mazda 6 because I don't want a Puke or a Qashqai. Mazda have now stopped the 6, so eventually I'll have to find something else. We're looking at replacing my wife's 2005 Fiesta, & a Qashqai was looked into because she's fed up of being bullied on the road because she's driving one of the smallest cars out there, & you can't see past all the stupidly huge cars on the road. She doesn't like SUV's either.
I'm happy that, for the time being there are still NA, combustion GT's and sports coupes. Electrification doesn't bother me, but I hope that as long as I am still safely able to drive myself I can continue to enjoy two doors and three pedals.
For me, I enjoy the music of many cylinders.
Drove home in my TVR today. Enjoyed it. Future bleak.
Classic car for the weekends, electric car during week. Not sure why everyone's getting hyped about it
My first car was Ford Fiesta. Man I missed that thing. It had so many scratches on it, once someone hit it and we could not find the dent. "I loved my rust bucket"
Thoughts on rumors the car industry doesn't actually believe in EV's and they want to look into other options but that politicians can't lose face after pushing this for 10 years? Hear this coming up in multiple automotive podcasts
I’ve seen comments in videos about Porsche and a few others have been developing synthetic fuel and apparently they’ve cracked it but it’s not cost effective right now but it’s early days
I did learn to drive in a Fiesta actually. And I also owned a 2016 ST Line 1.0 EcoBoost 140. Cracking little car.
Saddest car video I have seen recently. With all the electrification and hybridization, I am losing interest in cars. The M3 touring which I have on pre-order, I plan to keep for over 10 years, might be the last car I buy.
That's probably for the best.
I think there must be yet another Huracán, Lambo said the Ultimae (that literally means "last") was the last Aventador and just today they unveiled the Invencible/Auténtica which is they swear is the last N/A V12 ever
But, definitely the saddest lost for me is the GR 86 :( 💔
Great video - 2007 the year the GT-R came out - madness. About time for the Aventador that as I mentioned in my video finally will be replaced by the Revuelto very soon 🙌🏽
woah that's its official name already?
@@baoquoc3710 That's most likely going to be the name, honestly It sounds terrible.
You can't ever call yourself car person or have taste if you get rid of your hatchback or estate for a crossover/suv
I'll be getting both ... pick up a classic car and an electric car if I need it in the future ... silly to be dogmatic about it ... make best use of both.
This guy Rory Reid is definitely The BEST!!! I am amazed by his sense of cheerfulness and knowledge.
Ford announced in 2017 that they are going to stop making cars altogether, by that I mean saloons, estates, hatchbacks. They will only make trucks and electric mustangs going forward. I’m not sure we fell out of love with hatchbacks not in Europe anyway, they just rammed SUVs down our throats and said take it or leave it.
Unfortunately, SUV's are easier to make comply with crash regulations, because they are just bigger so can fit more safety features. I also object to the intelligent speed assist and, especially, the 'intelligent' lane assist now mandatory:
We had a rented Kia Cee'd (70 reg) and bounced over a pothole. The car subsequently decided that it had entered the opposite lane and fought (very hard) to steer onto the wrong side of the road. It did it quite a few times later, e.g., those lines on the road for speed cameras made it try and crash into a ditch and, on a B road, it would constantly pick between the two sides of the road because of the varying width.
I've driven in Germany, France and Italy, where they have a white line down the centre and along the edge of their much wider roads, and I can see this technology working there, however, here, in the UK, our roads are older and of varying width, so this technology doesn't work here. It's an EU law that came in after Brexit, I'm not a brexiteer but didn't we leave the EU and their regulatory nonsense to avoid just this?
@@rhyswilliams7884 I agree and I’m still waiting for Brexit.
V8s need to identify as electrics so we can still keep them, we says they cant? That’s discrimination
Genius
If you don't receive your Nobel peace prize for this great idea, it would be proof of rampant corruption.
🤣🤣🤣 Yes !
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MURICAAAA 😂
Artura is not the replacement for 720s. The 7-series isn’t being axed either. 720 is having a (minor) update to 750s. Originally planned for April ‘23; now aiming October (‘23, I hope) :)
Source?
@@DevKumar-bi2ld It's advertised on the official McLaren website, what source you even asking for ... Look up things yourself for once. How hard is to go to the official website and read about it ...
@Michael Maes the 750S has been pushed out till October 23’?! Yikes, I thought it was ready to be released right away
@@jameswillard1 Yes and, personally, I wouldn't hold my breath either for that date. MTC is full force focussed on catching up of 2 years Artura delays.
On the bright side: rumour has it McLaren plans to release the 750s Coupe and Spider at the same time. Would make sense too, as opposed to their usual 2 year interval between these 2 versions, as they don't have that many years left to replace the 7-series with the new version (hybrid).
@@maesmichael that makes sense, unfortunately my local Mclaren dealership was telling me that a lot of interest died off on the Artura because of the delays and as a result there are a lot of unsold cars arriving in the US, so hopefully for Mclaren’s sake inventory doesn’t start stacking up like before Covid requiring big discounts to move them
Cars are becoming throwaway tech like phones
Funny to watch this video in March 2024, when in fact Mclaren axed the 720S and presented 750S as a replacement😅 Bring it on Mclaren!
I will be driving petrol cars/motorbikes for as long as possible even that means hanging on to my old one. Part of the joy for me is the sound of the engine especially on my motorbike no matter how fast or slow it is. EV’s equal boring and clinical for me, plus don’t get me started on how environmentally friendly they are supposed to be, really, I don’t think so!!
What you think is of no consequence to the given facts. Enjoy your rides while you can.
@@robertmandl9326 The internet cloud is vastly more environmentally damaging to the planet due too the vast amount of energy and water needed, check it out and we’re all guilty of it because obviously we all use data. But all we hear about is how damaging ICE vehicles are, when in reality it will only make tiny difference to global warming if we all drove EV’s, so small in fact it would be insignificant.
@@ianleaver4967 This is so off I won't even dignify this with arguements.
The hunting and slaughtering of super cars needs to stop! Hey, I think I just wrote the plot for the next Pixar movie. Cars 4 Return of the Humans.
One of the best automotive journalists.
Great Video and a sad reflection on the world we live in. Instead of investing in totally ungreen despite the marketing hype electric cars. We should be finding ways to convert existing petrol and diesel vehicles to be able to use a clean fuel and in transition stage as that develops having some sort filter able to extract carbon and nitrogen etc from exhaust. The industry is listening to the wrong people and are developing vehicles with batteries that are unable to be recycled and whose raw products extraction are destroying huge areas of land and causing irreversible environmental damage.
That would be amazing. If it existed.
I can't help thinking some of the move to SUVs is becasue it's easier to hide a battery in the space generated by giving a higher car than in a saloon.
such a shame everybody wants suv's. I will never buy one.
Same here, bro.
Me too. Bloody horrible things..Just buy an Estate car. Better looking, more practical with better aerodynamics.
So. Not everyone wants an SUV. It's in every comments section. That's an awful lot of customers. SUV are favoured because they are easy to electrify and the likes of Autotrader push the agenda without pushing back. Be careful with the hero worship on TH-cam as there are strings being pulled behind the scenes
SUV’s are great, they provide me with endless amusement when they park in the allocated parking bays, at my local hospital, and find that they can’t open the doors to get out as they’re too wide.
I've made the last-minute decision and I took an available allocation from Audi and now I'm waiting for my Audi R8!
I like how Brands like Lotus are creating new analog sports cars like the Emira that we can enjoy for a few more years before the full electrification
There is no soul without sound. RIP I.C.E.
This is both narrow-minded and an indirect insult to deaf people.
@@StarlightTrail3 Afaik theres no rule prohibiting one to reply to multiple people in one video.
on the electric and hybrid era, i would want to see an artura powerplant (tuned to be more smooth) in a facelifted or all-new mclaren gt
V8s will increase in value, hold onto yours!
Even if the value does not increase, the joy will last forever!
@@jp3630 For sure. I can make my case by looking at how valuable the Nissan R34 and Supra have become over time.
Yep, the efficiency EV allows is worth the unknown risks and challenges. Makers will refine settings to allow donuts and burning rubber, along F1 fake sounds inside and out.
A Ferrari without a sound is like an opera with no singing
I had a fiesta sad it is no more available.
If i were the Sultan of Brunei i would have some taste full cars.
Nissan GTR with a V 10 twin turbocharger
Audi R8 with V12 Aventador with supercharged
Miata with LS V8
RX 7 with 4 rotors and a twin turbocharger
BTW your red jackets looks awesome.
good motor journalism. this guy has only up to go in this industry
The order book for the F8 actually closed in the last quarter of 2021. It is just the run out of production that's left. Such a shame about the Fiesta. My 1st car when I was 17 in 88 was a 1980 mk1 1.1 Popular Plus. KCP940W. What great memories driving all over Yorkshire of a weekend in it. Etc.😉😉👍👍
My first car, right now at 17, is a Mk6 Celebration Edition. Incredible car
Flip. I love saloons and hatchbacks
I've always had my doubt towards this "so-called" fleet emission. If most of these cars are garage queens any way, why bother having a fleet emission target on them. No driving, no emission, and you can't do better than truly having zero emissions from them when no energy is consumed. It's like putting a fleet emission on an LV hand bag. What's the point.
If you have a car that you don´t drive, its not a car, its a statue shaped like a car. Aka: pointless indeed. Why even build the damn thing then. Waste of materials. And your "math" doesn´t add up, as resources (read: co2 pollution) went into making that paper weight in the first place.
@@robertmandl9326 But there is nothing regulating the manufacturing impact. It's about the use-phase impact as it stands. So no, you are the one who can't read. Not to mention the manufacturing impact is negligible compared with a common use case scenario for a car. There are tons of stuff getting manufactured for no reasons. Do all of them have "fleet emissions" regulation? No. A for effort for you to try to move the goal post. Didn't work though.
@@jkliao6486 There are indeed many things produced with little use. But before you start give out ratings you might wanna check how many cars there are and their proven impact on the climate.
@@robertmandl9326 You might want to check what is the manufacturing impact of a car before commenting here thinking that's the big part.
@@jkliao6486 Already did. Over time, EV wins.They sure are not the ultima ratio but they damn sure are a step in the right direction and better than ICE. And theres enough facts on hand to prove this. Sorry they dont cater to your inner 5-year-old who desperately needs his car to go VROOOM. But then again deciding on an EV requires an adult mind, so I guess youre not the target audience anyway.
And then lambo released a 2 one off last NA V12 aventador invencible and auténtica.
*This is the end for so many cars* 😳
hey maybe review model cars since pc master race thingy is quite popular in the tech circles now
The special petrol cars may eventually become very sought after remember the digital watches, Rolex are doing OK😂
Kids, become an ICE mechanic. Owners will treat these appreciating assets like gold.
But as owners of these cars it should help keep the values up
Every day I hate crossovers and SUVs more. In the past if you liked it you could choose between a hatchback/saloon or an SUV, your money your choice, but nowdays they're focing you to buy SUVs/crossovers if you want a new car
for differing reasons, i can't say i'll miss any of them
People are falling out of love with small cars. That's why Corsa is a great hit!
You forgot the Stinger!
The problem for me is not electrification, I’m fine with electric cars (sort of), but my problem is more so us being forced to transition into electrification.
Two radically different technologies doing the exact same job, one slow, complicated, loud, dirty and inefficient, the other the opposite? Yeah, they could keep going in parallel. I mean, lots of people still drive steam engines, right?
@@grahamthompson5581 looks like you just described a lot of the sports. electrification has its own issues and doesn't improve on the issues it's trying to solve as much as the people making the change think they do.
even if it is a good decision, forcing others simply isn't something you could or should do.
You didn't have a problem with emmisions regulations dictating car transitions last 40 year's.
Quit pretending like "forced" change is your problem
Carbon neutral Synthetic fuel is thing, and it working in combustion engines. Phasing out all combustion engines is dumb.
Rory going full on puntastick! Love it 👍🏻
Still some bargain V8’s available. I’m saving up to buy a 15-16 years old V8 Vauxhall Monaro VXR £12-15k
Of course we all know that the untold sustainable solution is making mobility accessible only to the very few rich people, but I am sure that Godzilla will do what it does best: punishing mankind for their mistakes!
A well put together video, well researched.
The infrastructure still is not even close to where it needs to be support the move. Used car prices are going to skyrocket.
R.I.P all ice cars. As a massive car enthusiast I am not looking forward to the future without proper engines.
Should of pushed back when we had the chance. Don't buy them. Don't fall for the Autotrader hype. Force people to have a proper and open discussion about their motoring needs. The likes of Rory have a fleet. V8, diesel etc which he's admitted in a previous comment to myself within the Autotrader comments sections. Nice for him. Who cares about the rest of us ? If car firms have these higher priced models sitting going nowhere they will soon wake up
@@robsmall6466 Doesn't matter, just like the scalpers, where they only need one person to benefit, these cars are targeted at rich people, and few of those will be car enthusiasts. No disrespect to them, as they have earned their money fair and square, few of these cars will be driven as intended, and all of them will be sold in no time.
@@jkliao6486 It is indeed the age of FOMO. Hopefully the bad blood it creates will see car companies adopt the affordable for all stance in the future ( obviously talking about the likes of Ford, Toyota etc and not exotic brands )
@@eugenux Legislation is definitely to blame. Current car prices are in part due to EV R&D. Brands have to be careful though. Too similar and they will drive ( excuse the pun ) themselves to extinction. Only have to look at the electronics industry to see that. People with disposable income will find something else to spend it on. Home improvements, holidays, whatever. Once your loyal customers gets another interest - good luck in getting them back
@@eugenux 100% agree with your point RE cars on roads. "All right for me but not for thee" attitude
ive already acted on it but my opinion remains the same: between crossovers, hybridisation, CVTs and eco turbo engines, ICE cars seem to more crappier with every new model. mmight as well give up and go electric if you are buying anything new.
Lamborghini and Attack on Titan share something in common.
The Artura is not 720s successor the successor of 720s hasn't been announced yet and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be more powerful than the Artura,the Artura is replacing the 570s
To be fair, Ford itself is deadwood that needs cutting away. If the future (present?) is vastly over-priced cars, who's going to throw that money away on a Ford? Not me.
The irony is that full transport electrification here in the UK is a distant pipedream. The current infrastructure is creaking at the seams and the plans for upgrading it are in disarray - the national government are only interested in virtue signalling on the world stage and local governments are only interested in fleecing drivers under the guise of the green agenda and clean air.
RIP the UK. RIP common-sense. RIP affordable cars. RIP vehicles that are fit for purpose.
I like the Cadillac escalade ESV from 2020 for seeing that it has a Cadillac escalade ESV from 2020 with a fuel other than diesel, gasoline, and electric. 😭
You are one of the best car journalist
Don’t believe the EV hype, there’s a reason why F1 isn’t doing it. Synthetic fuels are the future, there was a top gear special on a Porsche GT3 and Lambo SVJ running on fully synthetic fuel. The conversion process will be very easy, that is the way we will go
Some of the very first automobiles were electric.
I've always been a petrolhead, since I was a little kid. Lately though I've been getting increasingly frustrated and disappointed with the direction the industry is headed. SUVs, pointless electronic gadgets that will render a car useless in ten years, mindless swerve towards electric cars when battery technology still sucks...and mandatory driver 'assistance' technology??? Come on! That crap can be annoying as f***, if not downright dangerous.
Save for a few exceptions from a handful of automakers, I feel my passion is only being kept alive by the rising restomod wave, because new cars rarely excite me anymore.
The most dangerous thing on the road was and still is a human. Particularly those that enjoy their powerful vehicles a little too much. You can thank them for mandatory safety systems - people had a choice, and quite many of them chose to be mindless, careless a**holes, injuring and killing often innocent bystanders on the way. So your car brakes for you before you could run over a child? Daaamn, be sure to turn that shit off bro, who wants to safe a life when you can have unrestricted fun!
Moron.
@@robertmandl9326Watch out guys! A morally superior being!
Driver assistance systems are annoying all the time, no need to be driving like a lunatic to find that out, and they aren't nowhere near mature enough to be made mandatory.
What about your car stopping dead in its tracks in the middle of the highway because another car merged into your lane in front of you just a little too close, and the system can't tell that from a real obstacle? Oh yeah, that sure makes me feel a lot safer. Go f* yourself.
@@johanssonb Havent had that happen to me or heard about such an instance. And thanks for proving my point, a driver merging THAT close qualifies nicely for what I said. Lastly, if morally superior means not being a thick-headed backwards hick then I guess youre right - which would be a compliment for me and I accept it as such, thanks.
Couldn’t the title just be : all good cars are dying
That would simply be incorrect.
@@robertmandl9326 am I lying all the cars every petrolhead loves are dying
@@xaviermathura You initially said "All good cars" - and that is incorrect. There are good cars which are not petrol based and they sure look healthy to me.
@@robertmandl9326 yes that’s true maybe I should’ve have made a better choice of words
RIP Fiestas and Focuses..
Life just wont be the same Rory !
Imagine some pen pushers telling you that you cant sell a car because it hasnt got lane keeping assist.
The Day gas ICEs are discontinued, i'm going with em.
Atleast 3 Fords; fiesta, Galaxy & S Max
GTR can be pumped out to 2000hp and it runs fine bruh
What about the near entire Jaguar line up? 22 months & counting!
People switching to SUVs is something I'll never understand. Back in the day we had large cars to go camping in the countryside but today large cities are full of them. Especially here in Europe it looks grotesque on our narrow roads and tight parking spaces.
Anyway, as someone who drove both ICE and electric, it's way more fun to keep the ICE cars around (God bless my BMW Z3), especially if you're a gearhead. I'd appreciate a few more decades until they go extinct.
BOTTOM LINE IS... No.. You might not be able to buy these cars (and more fine cars that get cancelled over the next few years) new... BUT... They will STILL be legal to drive for many many many long and enjoyable years yet. It'll be like driving a Triumph Spitfire/Stag, MG B's, Midgets and other classics, a - "Yeah? You drive all electric? Well, I drive a 'Proper car' so up yours!" Hahaha... 🤔😏😉👍 😎🇬🇧
The problem with that is the government can price you off the road with higher road tax, fuel prices, parking permits, insurance etc
I love your show, man! Keep it up, sir!
I’m glad I live in America even more after watching this.
It’s such a sad time for petrol heads it’s gutting growing up loving the sound track to super cars
Are EVs really the future and we are journalists not really covering the sad reality of the tech such as real world range, poor build quality, glitches that come with the digital tech inside, poor charging infrastructure that hardly charges in the said speeds or even charge at, the real cost of building evs, the minerals involved and the labor, how charging times are impossible to reduce, the real depletion to battery life and range and many more realities that go with the tech, and many more may argue that ice cars started the same way but again ignore the fact that motoring itself has evolved so much to cater for any engine technology and if it is feasible it should not be starting from the same level as motoring did in the 18th century nor would the world feasibly handle the inconvenience in a mass scale and its unfair to bully people to transition to a field that is not truly ready or even ready for the numbers
Might as well throw the c63 amg on the list, have you seen the thing? My 1.6 diesel Peugeot is more exciting
In 1:03, did anyone else hear the word rust instead of rest?😆
I mean if they could get electric cars to sound exactly like internal combustion cars, I’d be ok with the change
The Aventador will ALWAYS be in my Top10 dream cars, when Jeremy Clarkson, among others, damn near broke his neck launching the thing, I knew that car was gonna be one of the last great V12s....
8:25 Damn! I barely missed my chance 😂😂😂😂😂
Michael Jackson wants his jacket back.
Hee hee.
We need the Audi from IRobot that can do 400kmh.
What if having bought a car you can bo longer buy due to restrictions, before there were restrictions? Now it's illegal to drive it or what? I would not care.
The super car manufacturers should be exempt from all this emissions / noise rubbish. They are rare cars, probably garaged and driven now and again. Save ICE performance cars!!! I will resist electric until my dying days!!!
I hope you have your grave site already booked then.
ICE Age....very clever haha
I wish Porche can save petrol cars. Hopefully the synctechic oil will do a blow. It's the only last hope.
honestly they stopped making good cars around 2010, to many restrictions
I still love combustion engines and it sucks that there switching to electric cars these days.
Do t like the F8. Looks worse than the 458 and the 488. Still happy that it exists though!
So the dream cars are going and affordable cars are going yet 2nd hand car dealers are refusing to take EV's as trade ins because they can't sell them.
Interesting times ahead.
Add my 2002 Astra G to the list! 😂
I heard the Lamborghini Aventador replacement is being released in march.