Non-Practical Invention Part I : Vehicle
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Initially i wanted to post up pictures of the bak kut teh i made 3-4 days ago, along with the recipe, the process, and stories when we were eating it. But oh well, due to some technical issues, i couldnt get the photos from Sher Mayne yet (your fault! hehe), as i didnt have a camera with me at that moment you see, since we cook at her place.. so i guess while waiting for the photos to arrive, i shall post something else to prevent this site from being so dead and swingy.

So, as the title inferred, it's about scientific inventions that are fancy by looks but useless in reality, in this entry, non-practical vehicles will be my top priority in reviewing. According to some dude in Mercedes Benz (in some documentary), he said, "designing a car is like designing a remote house, it must be convenient and perfect by looks, usage, mileage, safety, SPEED, in order to achieve its purpose". Except for his negligence of price (it's also very important to us consumer leh), i totally agree to the above statement. Unlike simple products like clothing, shoe, furniture, food, wife (oops!).... Vehicles has many criteria to meet in order to be optimal and marketable, though you might argue that it's style and design of the vehicle IS very important, but to me, what's more important is its capability to match will all the criteria as a whole.


Legendary beauty... Burgati Veyron, it's like Angelina Jolie of Cars, Elizabeth Taylor of Vehicles, sexy!

Veyron, yes, without a doubt, very sexy, and pretty fast as well i can guarantee.. but what if i tell you that a single bolt to screw the rim in could cost you more than 40usd? and the entire car worth more than 3 mil usd (this version)? hmm.. i guess the closest i can achieve is to get a miniature version of it.. Poorgati Veyron..

Price is a serious problem to many consumers, as majority of us arent sons and daughters of sultan, king, tycoon, or fortune teller. (eh they very rich one leh) So, something like veyron is definitely out of our reach in normal consequences (u can try to rob it). Therefore deprivation in possessing stylish and COOL stuff provokes a minority among us to make up with what they could do, and produce utter crappy modification or vivid replication of supercars like this...



lol.. like piloting lala spaceship like that... if by doing all these make you comfortable... add a few more neons leh


eh mister, your eye sight very bad ah? paddle also need to neon

By modifying cars in an utter odd manner might somehow boost these people's inferiority complex and make them feels a lil bit superior when they ride it on the road along a beemer, and they can say, "eh, ur car so expensive ah, but paddle got neon or not? meter can shine or not? Speaker can crack or not? cannot leh! hahahaha" *insert annoying ahbeng's laughter

Anyway, back to the post, damn, i got too carried away by the whole ah beng revolution thing.. damnit.. everything must be colorful, unmatched, and "pukable". So, like i said, a perfect car isnt easy to create, yet even harder to own one.. It's ok to have a dream car, even if you know the chances for you to own one is as slim as Michael Jackson being not guilty (hmmm...) Anyhow, because of those scientist, mechanics, and car engineers that dreams, we have variation of cars, and because of their constant efforts, many evolution has been introduced (see, evo also got generation 8, proton pun got gen 2) Though sometimes, i would say they seriously tried too hard..


this "thing" by peugeot here is just.. plain weird

According to the Peugeot technicians, this concept vehicle aims to eliminate many incapabilities of motorbike, scooter and so on.. It possessed smart turning manuveur (serious?), wonderful mileage management, and comfortable movement (what? by riding in a superman position?).. Hmmm.... i really wonder..


another weird ass err.. "car" by peugeot

So, with a doorless "car" that looks like a fish tank like this.. what are you trying to achieve here ah? Though it claims to be categorized as part of smart car.. hmm well to me the design isnt very smart..



the new evolution of the biker gang!!! lol if i see them on the road with that, i run for sure

The roundish vehicle from the top part of the pic, looks kinda familiar.. like some weird ass spaceship/vehicle in some sci-fi movies, and i am impressed that someone actually willing to cough out a sum of money to invent stuffs like that.. It claims again to be a safer version of biking (of coz.. i dun think it can move very fast, tho it looks really cool)
For the second vehicle on the bottom part of the pic, i actually kinda like it, it's suppose to be some german-jap cross company project or something like that.. not too sure.. but the design is pretty cool and sleek.. advanced monowheel huh.. i like it.. tho it looks bit fragile..and dangerous..

lazy to research on this, anyway cool car in first sight huh?

Not too sure what model this is, but one thing for sure these guys who designed it never been to any tropical country or never planned to sell it there.. Imagine, driving this car in Malaysia during one fine sunny day.. *sweat.... If you managed to get only a heatstroke, you are considered lucky...

Vehicles are important to us, mainly because of its function to transport us to the destination we wanna go, its ability to be there faster or slower, its safety capability, but not so much bout the looks, speaker system, NEON, and of coz the mileage. It's true that to many guys cars are like wives, as it represent your status, style, taste and maybe achievement. Therefore, i could understand the feelings of why people wanna decorate their cars, add a lil bit of stickers here, a lil bit of spoiler there, changing the rims, convert to buckle seats, adding NEON (hey!), etc.., as in a modern world cars are like part of us, especially if you are living in a country with lousy public transportation services like.. M*******. But please, don't love your car too much, till you need to add tails for them, installing blue color light bulbs below their tummy, renovating their behind (boot) by moving in audio system.. please.. you are abusing them.. Maybe we should start some anti-car abuse organization or something like that (ACAO.. lol)

Furthermore, car scientists and engineers.. please please please.. invent according to our needs, try harder to figure out how to reduce vehicles' petrol consumption, try to produce cars with optimal function yet cheaper in price, but not spaceship looking car that only sons of some sultan or kings could purchase.

Learn from the japs or Koreans, design some contemporary stuffs.. no need to be so funky and no need to brush every records with every production.. what's more important is consumer's benifits.. :P teaching you how to do business here.. hehe

Be practical bit la..


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