The relativity of driving pleasure
05/02/2015
Driving pleasure and the joy of driving are words that often appear in articles about cars, whether test reports or nostalgic essays. BMW even used a variation of this in its "driving pleasure" advertising.
It is interesting to note that we are actually talking about subjective impressions here, because everyone perceives driving pleasure in a different way. While for one person the driving experience in a hard-sprung and noisy sports car is considered the optimum, another prefers the smooth glide in a limousine driven with fingertips.
Anyone who thinks it has to be a Ferrari sports car from the sixties or seventies to experience the highest levels of driving pleasure is wrong in the eyes of others, because there are certainly enthusiasts who can imagine nothing better than driving through the countryside in a pre-war Fiat.
Driving pleasure is also not dependent on the value of the car, but the technical condition can have a clearly negative influence on driving pleasure, as we have already explained earlier.
The criteria for driving pleasure or driving enjoyment probably also change over time, future generations will probably rave about the unbridled power development in the electric car, but perhaps not ...
