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This is a monthly publication aiming to offer facts and general information about sportive cars. The lists are divided in different categories and are configured considering manufacturers' data and road tests from some car magazines e.g. auto motor und sport, sport auto (GER), Road And Track, Motor Trend (USA), Veh-Tech (JAP), Top Gear, Car magazine (UK), Quattro Ruote (ITA), L’Automobile (FRA), Carro (BRA), automóvil (MEX), Autopista (SPA), and others.
This page aims at being a symbol of a person's developement as well, as it reflects the origins of somebody's interests while the latter and current ones not only have trascended the former, but to a great extent opposed them. Life's and social sciences' teachings have indeed helped in the developement of a more comprehensive perspective to an existence's orientation, the same with which motoring interests end up revealing its pondered trascendence, namely, a very subordinated and residual one. Although a nearly instinctive pleasure is sought, conceived and very often accomplished (fortunately so!) in so many of our adored "machines", the agregated of automobile's activities deal with the most rancid and cold occupations of humankind i.e. the extreme and dehumanising pursuit of immediatistic welfare and so thereby the objectivation of a most idiotesque (i.e. egotic) concept or rather ideology concerning "well being".
The specific sensual pleasure of driving, although in appearance sought for its own sake, has long ceded as car desirability's main argument to the function of socialisation through consumption. Neither is the vehicle an essential means to any anthropic necessity nor are its attributes in any way sought as self-fulfilling. Work's division has no doubt progressively brought especififc technological and production-efficient commoditites while alienating men (business enterpreneurs included) to the same degree from each other as into their objectivations. However, the absolute hegemony of market-economy in societies' reproductive activities has given as outcome the absolute and monistic fillment of values and indeed of ethics with the main aim of consumption.
A car's objetive and specific devices may indeed incide on its functionality (included the sensual), but eventually they reveal themselves as inert cuantitative augmentation of the agregated of consumist "wants" that need being satisfied. They are generated socially as its long term disfunctionality (as it generates further necessities, increases social complexion and thereby dependence to other economic agents and as it increases life's work force, "effort" and time) is hidden by the risk of non part taking in society's main strivals, thereby threatening social exclusion.
We may be well advised to further these considerations, and indeed intervene actively in societies' orientaions; in the meantime it becomes at least healthy to rationalise why we "love" cars. Some of us like to think the pleasure of driving we experience singularises and to some extent justifies (if its done in a reflexive manner) car culture. Some of us like to think we love cars because we like driving and not because it is socially functional to fullfill the liking of driving, the owning or the excercising of any of its interiorised attributes.
Some of us thereby like concluding that opposing mainstream marketeers, having permanent ecological concerns and seeking solely the purest and most direct driving experience, i.e. for its own good, legitimises our liking of cars. Does it?...
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