Cars and the future.......

[dave289]

I remember when I was in year 12 at school in 1988(ah the good ol days) and buying the lastest copy of wheels or motor magazine.(yes I used to also traul the the trading post at that age dreaming of something great for me to one day buy). anyway I remember the ea falcon had just come out and not long after was the vn commodore. Both cars at the time had advanced greatly over the previous model .For the first time they both had standard 4 wheel disk brakes on the base model. They both had fuel injection and power steer ,electric mirrors (ALTHOUGH THESE WERE,NT FIRSTS). I thought to myself that it seems like what other advancements are there for cars , to which I thought well there does,nt really seem to be that much .boy was I wrong , I cannot even think of all the advancements that they now have 20 years later.

Question is ,what can I expect in the next 20 or so years. to my current thinking I now expect to be driving an electric car and expect most others will to. sure I,ll keep my 67 xr v8 ,and if I can still buy petrol will hopefully take it out on occasions(may need to stock up like mad max). Now I really dont like the idea of and electric car anymore than the next ford forum average member does, but as I look in the dec issue of motor magazine( am I still buying these things) I come across a car called the Audi E-Tron( a car it seems I would be not only be very happy to own and drive but something to be proud of.
It is basically an r8 based plug in car that audi plans to make a production reality(IF ANYONE HAS SOME PICS, POST AWAY). It looks like not only something from the future but also something from the past ( a little bit like the effijy, which is one holden I would kill for)anyway it puts out 233 kw and 4500 nm of talk .yes thats right 4500nm- which they say needs to be scaled back drastically so that full acceleration does,nt peel the tread of the tyres. so it seems things may not be all that bad. so what do you expect to see from cars in the future and would you drive an electric car?

just to drag things on even more(sorry), my mates audi s5 has a fob which you leave in your pocket ,the cars opens automatically when you approach ,you just sit, press a button and she starts up, no keys ,nothing ,then a button to stop, he then gets out walks away and it locks when he is about a few meteres away. I wondered if we could expect that on a falcon or commi before too long.this guy I know had same set up on his toyota sportivo which is cheaper than most falcons.or one step further was the r8 which I was told had finger print recognition to start the car.