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WHY IS THE BOXER ENGINE IS SUPER COOL? - BOXER ENGINES EXPLAINED.

BOXER ENGINES: INTRODUCTION:                          We all know various engine setups and designs. The INLINE and the V engines are the most common in this automotive world . There's also a different kind of engine that holds up its heritage from the end of the 18th century  till date ,that's THE BOXER ENGINE!!. WHY SO THE NAME BOXER??                             Boxer engines are powerful,efficient and way loud than the other engines ,they are also called as Horizontally opposed engines .The name boxer is given due its odd firing order of pistons and its arrangement .                             In a inline engine the pistons are straight but in a Boxer engine the pistons are faced opposite to each other and also their movement is similar to a boxer ,using his ...

10 WORST CAR TRENDS OF THIS DECADE!!

TEN CAR TRENDS WE HATE NOWADAYS:

   Cars have been developed a lot in the past two decades . The growth of electronics in automotive industry had made the cars better in most ways. But manufacturers are  making more unwanted stuff that make no sense and made that a trend so other manufacturer also does the same to compete in the market. These are some worst car trends we hate the most nowadays.

1.TOUCH SCREENS !!!

     Touch screens are everywhere nowadays and also more common in most cars today. From the infotainment to control the cars features everything has become bundled into a screen. Yes that's normal when infotainment Technology has grown well in the past two decades . Have anyone remember that old Radio reciver and  cassette player in cars . 
Yes,we have come a long way from there now we have everything in that touch screen right from navigation to control or adjust our cars performance. But they are very complicated I bet that no one could connect their mobile to their car's infotainment for the first at an instant. That's difficult we don't know which one is placed under which menu. That's so much complicated when compared to adjusting a knob to change the Radio station that's very easy Right.
   Those are on some common consumer level cars , In some exotics there is not even a slider to adjust the car's AC vents . Porsche has made their vents automated ,so to adjust your AC vent go to the touch screen do some hacking and then done! . Make sure you don't hit on a roadside tree while doing it so. Yes operation the touch screen is more distracting. 
Porsche also made their car's connected with social media services like Twitter. Won't anybody understand that nobody scrolls their social media page when they are inside a Porsche. Driving is a feeling .
   Also the worst offender is Tesla in Tesla's you need Touch screen even to access the glove box. So next time when you're blocked by a cop , inform them that your files are inside the glove box and your touch screen is broken. 
Too much of touch screen makes everything complicated. 

2.FAKE VENTS

   Vents are meant to give our car's engine more air delivery in order to keep them cool. Those vents we see in Lamborghini's and Ferrari are made for this purpose . Even the vents in Tata's Nano are functional. But nowadays car makers are considering the vents as a stylish element and they are using them in every single model they make. In most of the models they are just a piece of plastic joined with our car's body panel. Here the best example is the new Honda Civic Rs .

 The vents in the front and rear are just a piece of plastic glued with the bumper. If everyone needs those styling people would have buy stick on vents and stick wherever they want. So manufacturers must atleast make those vents a functional. 

3.SAFETY OVERLOADED

   Safety is one of the important features nowadays even in some countries there are strict norms for safety of a car and several standardization are made . Everything is fine until this . But some manufacturers use safety as a marketing strategy. Almost all luxury cars have many safety features that are not even needed . And also there is not proper standardization in the safety in countries like India . So manufacturers add some unwanted features and claim their cars as "The safest ride in the market" and some flashy marketing lines. Even when we are in reverse gear that annoying beep sound is alarming inside the car only . Which doesn't make any sense we know we are reversing. It'll be more practical to alarm the people around the car while reversing in a crowded area. How many of you remember those loud tunes playing while reversing some old cars and modded vans. They are more practical right.

4.DIALS AND DIGITAL SHIFTERS

     Automatic transmissions are good , but in most of the cars today , Doesn't even have a shifter to change the driving modes . Instead they provide a small knob or a dial pad with buttons to change the mode of driving . They are very very confusing . We eventually lost the thrill and connection between us and our car while using a automatic and these dials for shifting gears makes the driving lose its soul. Still almost car lovers love manual transmission. I'm not speaking about normal low budget cars they still have a manual gear box. But some high end cars made for pure driving making their way with a dial pad or a digital shifter with just P D R and ECO , SPORTS, CRUISE modes are sick . Which makes driving a lot boring.

5.FAKE ENGINE NOISES

This is also a new trend adopted by car makers to make their car a bit sportier.
They feed a fake engine noise through our cars infotainment system and speakers . That's absolute cheating right . Many car manufacturers adopting some emissions norms and make their engines more efficient and smooth which resulted in loss of those old engine roars. So they use this trick to make us fool . Almost every car manufacturers does this , BMW , VW and Ford are the worst in this case . When we switch to that sports mode we can hear those fake sounds and in some cars suddenly after ignition these sounds are pushed through the speakers. In some cars with blackberry QNX os . They preload the sounds based on our engine's revs in the infotainment system .

6. GESTURE CONTROLS 

 Also this is a Growing feature that's making its way in some modern cars , Who asked for gesture controls inside a car . They make driving a lot complicated. Firstly they are very tough and . Who will make his hands rotate in front of his dash board while driving in a freeway to reduce the volume instead of just rotating a dial . Those old infotainment systems are lot better than these modern ones and also trying to operate a function through gesture control can make the driver distracted while driving. These gesture controls are very useful inside a room but inside a car they make no sense and also they make our driving a lot complicated.

7. TURBO EVERYWHERE

   Nowadays car manufacturers due to strict emission norms , Make their engine a lot more smaller . The only way to get a performance gain for them is to swap a turbo in . But not at all the case the turbo is the only choice. Even some small engined cars now come with a turbo . People also think TURBO=PERFORMANCE but that not true at all . There are some really cool naturally aspirated cars available on Earth . The Honda S2000 , Aston Martin Valkyrie's V12 . So turbos are not a sign of performance due to peoples misconception about this the car makers are just swapping a turbo in and gives a performance badge and sells it for a lot of money. Also fitting a turbo needs a lot of engineering we must make sure of the oil lines are good enough and there will be a lot of heat generated in a turbo powered engine . So there must be proper ventilation. 

8. FAKE EXHAUST 

    They are very common in almost most of the cars nowadays and the crossovers are very worst almost every crossover has a fake exhaust vent in the bumper shining in chrome. Why are they included ? . We don't need a piece of plastic sticking around our rear bumper just for showcase. They make no sense , Also in many High end luxury cars we can see these fake exhaust . 

9. BRIGHT OEM HEADLIGHTS

 Nowadays cars headlights are overpowered some countries have some special rules for the limit of intensity a headlight can make. Yes that's really a big problem nowadays some headlights even makes us blind in a freeway . The cars flashing high intensity headlights can make the drivers opposite to them blind. Which can lead to some disastrous accidents. Even many cases are recorded in many freeways across the world.

10. LARGE FRONT GRILLES

 How many of us love BMW's old kidlney shaped grilles . They are so nice those days . But nowadays those grilles are very large almost occupying the most part of the front portion of a car. That make those cars look wierd. Also the front grilles are used to cool the engine . To get more air flow to the radiator. But nowadays they are just a scrap covering the whole front of a car with no functional usage. 
Also electric cars doesn't need large front grilles that's why we can't able to see large grilles on Teslas. But Mercedes and BMW's are designing electric cars with large front grilles which makes no sense. They add them just for a masculine robust looks. 
BMW the worst in case increasing the grille size. Which makes the whole car look ugly according to me . I personally love those grilles on the e46. But now they are making them worse..

 11.  CARS WITHOUT A SPARE WHEEL!

   This is a most common and worse trend of the decade. Manufacturers are thinking this as a cost cutting for their cars. But having a spare wheel gives a lot of confidence while planning for a long ride. Yes the cars nowadays comes with a inflator and tubeless tyres which can make you run few more miles without taking your car to a mechanic shop. Also changing a spare wheel is a basic knowledge for a car driver,  Exclusion of these spare wheels also makes us to run to mechanic shop even for a small puncture. 


   These new car trends are making us feel detached from our car they claim as "always connected" etc . But actually they are making driving feel soul less. Bring back the manual , Reduce those electronics inside the cars , Reduce those technology claiming themself as "smart". According to me these are the worst car trends or technology in this decade. Mention your thoughts through the comments.

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