YOU couldn’t make it up. That simplest of ideas – the small,
unpretentious car – might be about to be saved by two of the fastest names in
motoring.
The first, Yamaha, you’ll be familiar with. Provided you’re
not an aficionado of the company’s musical instruments, the name will probably
spring to mind most immediately as the makers of mentalist superbikes, although
they’ve actually made more of a contribution to the car world than you might
expect.
If you drive a Ford with a Zetec badge on the back, it means
your car’s humble engine got flown halfway around the world so the Japanese
firm’s boffins could fiddle with it and make it far more rev-happy than it
really ought to have been. Well, at least it was until Ford’s marketing boys
got in the act and decided ‘Zetec’ was a trim level, rather than a badge of
honour to say your hatchback’s humble engine had been tuned by superbike
experts.
The second name, Gordon Murray, will either mean absolutely
nothing or get your inner car nut immediately excited. He’s a South African car
lover who moved to Britain
in his early twenties, and having blessed the F1 world with his expertise than turned
his technical know-how to making a string of supercars. Put simply, he is the
brains behind the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR.
What connects the dots? Well, you might remember reading
about Gordon Murray’s efforts to almost single-handedly reinvent the way small
cars are made. The end result, the T25, was so small you could fit three ofthem into a parking space, but it wasn’t a production car in the conventional
sense.
It was a more a sort of open invitation to the car world,
and Yamaha’s the first company to take him up on it.
The end result, the MOTIV.e, might have a terrible name but
it looks fantastic, with lithe lines that make it stand out a mile from the
blobby superminis which dominate the showrooms today. While there’s no word on
it being a production model just yet, the prospect of being able to drive to
work every morning in a car designed by an F1 genius and finished off by a
group of superbike experts does have a certain appeal to it.
All Yamaha need to do now is whip the MOTIV.e’s electric
motor out and drop in the 180bhp screamer from the R1. Now THAT would be a
small car worth writing home about…
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ReplyDeleteThe Yamaha MOTIV.e certainly has an interesting name choice, which some might consider to be less than ideal for a promising car. While the name may not evoke a strong sense of excitement or convey the car's potential, it's important to remember that a car's name is just one aspect of its overall appeal. Ultimately, what truly matters are the car's performance, features, and reliability. So, while the name might not be the most impressive, it's worth focusing on the car's actual capabilities and merits rather than solely judging it based on its name.If I use wifi with vpn than someone see my internet history
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