Besides, its rubbish on roads. Thats the trade off you get with compromised engineering.

The result is a car that screams its head off and doesn’t handle, whereas the previous model used to scream its head off but did handle well.

Oh, and if Honda wants to bleat about efficiency, it could start with the honda.co.uk web site, which is a pox of a thing to browse through, waiting for things to load.

But i think you’ll see a few things that aren’t so great as fancy pants welds or carbon fibre cup holders.

Car companies will rip out sophisticated suspensions and use “ye old” world torsion beams etc. Of course, they’ll site it as weight saving technology. When in fact its nothing more than cost cutting.

It certainly is an exciting and highly dynamic change we are seeing in the auto industry. Those that thought a big fat heavy guzzler would still be a good thing (aka Ford/GM) are now wiping the egg off their faces….while all those little buzz-box Japanese makes are once again favourable again.
The things that we will see in the next few years will be def interesting and as manufacturing materials that were once expensive give rise to alternatives never before thought possible.
Of course we will have to wade through all the buzz and hype to avoid wasting our time and ending up with another short lived model that will only become famous via some article in the press…”What were they thinking?”

But efficiency is def the name of the game now….