Dinosaurs in our midst

摘要

Imagine a global automotive show with an emphasis on big engines - huge-displacement V8, V10 and V12 behemoths that drink petrol as if oil reserves can never be depleted, whose relative efficiency declines in direct proportion to their size. Major automakers compete with concept vehicles at this show, each with a more massive power plant than the year before. Automotive journalists fall over each other to be first with the news, gushing about 'soulful engineering' in paeans to a legendary Golden Age.