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Cars Have Come A Long Way Baby
How much longer will we have internal combustion engine cars? Who knows. My guess. Not long.
The first internal combustion engine car was created in 1885 by a gentleman by the name of Karl Benz. At that time, there was just one car on the road.
One hundred and thirty-six years later there are roughly 1.3 billion mostly internal combustion engine vehicles on the road today including cars, trucks, and motorcycles. I think Mr. Benz would fall over in amazement at the cars in the following video, still using the internal combustion engine he was so instrumental in creating.
This video is provided courtesy of Dutch Shell Oil at a great expense. Ferrari pulled several of their race cars from various ages out of storage, flew them to various locations around the world and filmed them racing through the streets of Rome, Rio, New York, Hong Kong, Honolulu and Monaco. The bill for the cost of clearing all those streets and roads must have been jaw-dropping. No computer graphics were used. These are the original cars on the…
