事實與偏見 Fact and Prejudice

Prejudice 偏見
英國最近民意調查, 年青駕駛人要趕絕 70+ 長者駕駛

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1345214/elderly-driver-road-safety-car-ban-driving-law

Elderly driver crackdown: Young drivers want to see over 70s banned from the road

By LUKE CHILLINGSWORTH, PUBLISHED: 08:55, Thu, Oct 8, 2020

In a shocking new poll from uSwitch, almost 10 percent of road users believe elderly drivers
over the age of 70 should be banned completely from the road



Fact 事實
英國統計數字顯示長者駕駛人比年青人重安全

The study finds that, on the whole, drivers 65 and older are just 16 percent likelier than adult drivers to
cause an accident. As shown in the figure, the youngest drivers are 188 percent likelier than adult drivers
to cause a crash.

The study finds that older drivers, who represent 15 percent of all licensed drivers, cause 7 percent of
all two-car accidents (both fatal and nonfatal). Younger drivers, on the other hand, who represent 13
percent of all licensed drivers, cause 43 percent of all two-car accidents.

其中一個原因是長者有自知之明, 覺得駕駛能力退化就自動自覺放棄. 剩下長者駕駛人都是高手, 例如鄙老, 哈哈.

Self-Regulation

Many older drivers give up driving entirely, because they understand that they are a risk to others and
to themselves. By removing themselves from the pool of drivers, they leave behind older drivers who
drive comparatively well.

Older drivers tend to avoid driving conditions that put them at greater risk. The study finds that older
drivers tend to stay off the road during peak traffic times and at night. By contrast, younger drivers
show no particular pattern during the day and drive more frequently at night.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9272.html#:~:text=The%20study%20finds%20that%20older,of%20all%20two%2Dcar%20accidents.

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FCW foward collision warning
LDW lane departing warning

請教現時香港那些車有?

S500

eBeetle powered by Tesla




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Volvo P1800 最著名有二件事
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其二是單一私家車行走咪數最多世界紀錄

1966年美國教師 Gordon 買入 P1800, 至 05/2018 行了 3.2M miles (5M km)
Gordon 11/2018 去世
'I expect that I'll still be driving the car until there's nothing left of me'

ANTTI KAUTONEN
Nov 16th 2018
Volvo owner Irv Gordon, who drove 3.2M miles in his P1800, has died
'I expect that I'll still be driving the car until there's nothing left of me'
Irv Gordon, the famous million-miler Volvo man, has reportedly died at age 77.

Gordon, a former school teacher from Long Island, gained fame and Guinness World Records mentions by driving, driving and driving the Volvo P1800 he bought in June 1966. He originally turned to Volvos after having trouble with two consecutive Chevrolet Corvairs; Gordon needed a dependable car to get him to work and back every day, doing 125 miles of daily commuting.

A Wired article on Gordon says he really got into the record-driving thing after realizing he had passed the 250,000-mile mark with his Volvo with just basic maintenance and no repairs, getting a nice letter back from Volvo after he wrote the company to praise its product.

The last mileage update on his Facebook fan page put the car at 3.2 million miles, or over 5 million kilometers, in May 2018.

P 1800 幾靚仔。

[#124]
Ghia 也設計了 VOLVO 的 P1800
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Volvo P1800 最著名有二件事

其一
在電視劇集 [俠聖譚西敏] The Saint 中作為 主角 Roger Moore 的戰車 ST1.
劇集監製原本請求 Jaguar Cars 贊助一部 E-type. 但被拒絕了.
Volvo 冷手執個熱煎堆

Roger Moore 其後演了 7 部 James Bond 電影, 並在 2003 由英女皇封爵
Sir Roger George Moore KBE

2008 法國也封為 Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Saw one in HK east last week

VW Karmann Ghia 1955–1974
The German car with the sexy Italian shape
Chassis and mechanicals of the Beetle
Styling by Italy's Carrozzeria Ghia
Hand-built bodywork by German coach building house, Karmann.

Karmann 和 Ghia有著完全不同的發展路線，卡門的成功模式
VW 和保時捷兩個品牌各取所需，VW利用這個底盤為基礎，開發出第一代的Golf；
而保時捷也沿用這個底盤引擎設定，開發出入門版本保時捷 914。

Ghia 也設計了 VOLVO 的 P1800
後來到了美國，福特的旗下車款，只要是高檔選配車款，則都套上 Ghia 字樣
藉此來向 Giacinto Ghia (Carrozzeria Ghia SpA) 致敬，如 Escort Ghia、Focus Ghia 和 Mondeo Ghia 等等





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等緊呢架, 1萬塊 US$
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堪稱「上班族福利」！1萬塊的豐田三輪代步車來了，2人座還不加油
2018-06-05 由 同心汽車 發表于資訊

新能源車的發展趨勢一片大好，隨著技術的不斷進步，純電車型無論從續航里程還是駕乘感受或者用戶接受都有了很大的進步，玩家也越來越多。就在行業爆發的前夜，大潮一來，誰能勇立潮頭？
原文網址：https://kknews.cc/news/bab8jq6.html

seems like a perfect family performance hatch..

勁, 97歲揸棍波, 拜服!

97歲炒車婦, 載71歲資深大狀女, 赴JW酒店宴會, 撞毀瑪莎拉蒂
梁冰濂母親所駕的本田私家車，車輛登記於2010年2月，登記地址為半山馬己仙峽道，當時市值約21萬元。消息稱，梁母駕駛的私家車屬棍波，購買時由於香港無同款棍波車，故要特別由日本運送到港
https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20181006/20515839

https://hk.news.appledaily.com/…/…/article/20181006/20515839

港最年長駕照持有人102歲

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汽車貿易戰, 呢d又點計?

https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/autos/gm-chinese-built-car/

GM to sell Chinese-built car in the United States for first time
GM said it will sell the Chinese-built Buick Envision, a crossover SUV, in the U.S. market starting next year (2016).

The UAW attacked the plan, saying it was "a slap in the face." It said GM should reconsider its plans and instead build a version for the U.S. market at a U.S. plant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/automobiles/we-can-stop-chuckling-now-chinese-made-cars-have-arrived-in-us.html

Chinese-Made Cars Arrive in U.S. Showrooms
By LAWRENCE ULRICH JAN. 28, 2016

• A PEEK under the hood of three new cars from Volvo, Buick and Cadillac will not reveal a Made in China label. But those cars are breaking new ground in the auto industry, becoming the first to be manufactured in the People’s Republic and exported to the United States

• Buick, desperate to fill the most glaring hole in its lineup, the compact crossover, will import the Envision.

• And this month, Cadillac announced that it would export a plug-in hybrid version of its new CT6 flagship sedan from China...

President Trump said Germans are not buying Chevrolets, but U.S. Americans
are buying Mercedes. Trump has proposed tariffs on imported German cars in response. Is this an unfair one-way street?

貿易戰燒到汽車，侵侵話德國人唔買美國車 Chevrolets， 美國人就買德國 Mercedes.
而家同歐盟達成雙方汽車零關稅.

侵侵大勝, 向美國車製造商如 Chevrolet 等領功, 話爭取到美國車零關稅出口到歐盟.
沒有提到歐洲車如 Mercedes, VW, etc 也是零關稅進口美國.
另有傳聞 RR, Aston Martin 美國 agent 在英國脫歐之前, 大量進口美國


有人覺得侵侵英明神武
Good deal or bad deal?

侵侵將 Chevrolet 和 Mercedes 相比
美國自己友有如下意見:
Drew Longworth, Conservative around liberals and liberal around conservatives.

The two are incomparable.
It's not that Chevrolets don't sell in Germany, it’s American made cars don't sell in Europe. Not well anyway. And the ones that do, you wouldn't recognize… American companies (for the most part) make cars for America, because we have a huge market and they can get away with keeping things at home. Foreign car manufacturers make cars for Global markets and global conditions so are vastly more versatile than American made cars.

Europeans also value the quality and fuel efficiency of their cars quite a bit and American manufacturers, historically anyway, haven't produced the best in those categories. They have much improved but it's hard to shake a bad reputation.

Secondly, European roads are narrow, windy, not suitable for the big cars we Americans like to produce. Take a look at a Suburban or Escalade. Those things are huge! They wouldn't fare well on much other than the major streets. If you’re in Europe and shopping for a Ford, you'd be hard pressed to find an Explorer or an Expedition, but take a look at the lovely Ford Ka

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Chinese translation of some terms

manual transmission 棍波, 棍仔
auto 都有用棍仔轉波
why not 手波?

sport/sports saloon 運動型房車
Sport (British English) or sports (American English) 除左解作 “運動”,
有其他意思 (meaning)

Sport/sports includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which,[1] through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators

"all forms of competitive physical activity or games"

"competitive" 競賽, 唔係運動

豆毛個人意見:
“運動型房車” 係不合格翻譯
Should be 房跑車, 高性能房車

參考下列
A sports sedan — also known as "sports saloon" — is a subjective term for a sedan/saloon car which is designed to have sporting performance or handling characteristics.

In the United Kingdom, the term super saloon is used instead of sports sedan. However, super saloon can also be used to describe a racing car that is based on a road-going family car, for example the New Zealand Super Saloon car racing series.

The term was originally introduced in the 1930s and early examples include the Sports Saloon versions of the Rover 14[2][3] and Rover 16.[4][5]

From the 1960s, the term sports sedan was increasingly applied by manufacturers to special versions of their vehicles that allowed them to enter production cars in motor races. These cars contained modifications not normally permitted by the regulations which therefore required cars to be homologated typically by selling them in minimum numbers to the public. Some of the earlier examples were the Alfa Romeo 1900, Renault R8 Gordini (1964), Triumph Dolomite and Lotus Cortina.

Definition[edit]
Attributing the definition of 'sports car' to any particular model can be controversial or the subject of debate among enthusiasts.[10][11][12] Authors and experts have often contributed their own ideas to capture a definition.[13][14][15][16]

A car may be a sporting automobile without being a sports car. Performance modifications of regular, production cars, such as sport compacts, sports sedans, muscle cars, pony cars and hot hatches, generally are not considered sports cars, yet share traits common to sports cars. Certain models can "appeal to both muscle car and sports car enthusiasts, two camps that rarely acknowledged each other's existences."[17][18][19] Some models are called "sports cars" for marketing purposes to take advantage of greater marketplace acceptance and for promotional purposes.[20] High-performance cars of various configurations are grouped as Sports and Grand tourer cars[21] or, occasionally, just as performance cars.

跑車（Sports Car）是一種以性能劃分的車型種類。在Road & Track的汽車字典中，跑車被定義為具空氣動力學車體的高性能汽車。理論上僅有兩個車門和兩個座位稱為純種跑車，或是採用2+2式設計的，即為兼顧實用性配備了兩個空間較狹窄的後座位，並非設計用於經常性搭乘。如果有寬敞的後座空間稱為高性能轎車，部分甚至有四或五道車門和普通轎車相似的。

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呢架應該都係光岡









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昨晚見到在路上行駛, 不過路燈暗, 睇唔清係真正 1954 XK120 (pic 1)
或 A 貨光岡 (pic 2)





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XK120

光岡係抄 XK120 (1948-54) 多 D

XK150 (1957-61)

光岡有品味, 整個 A 版 XK150

Jaguar 老鬼至愛 XK150