Epic Fail's - Motoring [Read original post, no off topic discussion]

[2011G6E]

If you went back to the year 1900, and looked at the three types of vehicles available at the time (steam, electric, and petrol powered), the number in use, and how successful and reliable they were, you would guess (not knowing the future) that electric powered cars would come out on top. There were many manufacturers making them in large numbers, and they were very successful and quite common. Petrol powered cars were slow, unreliable, hard to run, and difficult to own (as in put up with on a daily basis). Electric cars were easy to own, clean (as in not oily and greasy and stinking), powerful, and ladies liked them as you could just get in and press the pedal and away you went...you didn't need an intimate mechanical knowledge or have to employ a driver just to own one.
Steam was the most powerful type of car, but they were also a bit fiddly to own and sometimes exploded in an extravagent way, but they were the "hot rod" of the day.
The success of petrol as a power source for cars was hardly gauranteed in the early days of motoring.

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