Diesel is the king?

I hate to talk in stats or rather numbers but in a recent articles I read that petrol variants are struggling to sell while their diesel sibling are selling like hot cakes in almost every segment of cars in India. For example in the hatchback segment the ratio of petrol to diesel is 80:20. That doesn't sound so strange as the city where I live diesel(45 Indian rupees per liter) is almost 22 Indian rupees more costlier than petrol(67 Indian rupees per liter). So suppose if you drive a petrol hatchback in a city for which it is usually meant for and gives you a decent fuel economy of 12 kmpl(i.e. kilometer per liter) and your daily run is 40 kmpl(since my city is not a big one) you blow 3.33 liter of petrol which costs you 223 Indian rupees practically  it doesn't when you include the fuel wasted in traffic jams etc. Now you take the same hatchback with the diesel engine giving you an efficiency of 14 kmpl, you end up consuming 2.86  liter of diesel which costs 129 Indian rupees which gives a difference of 94 Indian rupees. Which sums up to roughly to 2820 Indian rupees in a month's run or 33840 Indian rupees in a year which is roughly half the amount you paid extra for the diesel variant over the petrol one of the same hatchback. So we see the diesel rules in as long as it is India. Still I cant see any automaker coming up with a petrol engine that is more efficient than a diesel engine of same displacement. Period.

Our Love for Sports Cars

Tell me who don't want to own a sports car. Sporty, stylish, fast, maybe impractical but who cares it must be a sculpture that makes the heart to long and crave for it.Surely manufacturers are coming up with various sports cars and in all categories but certainly people do wait for cheap adequately powered rear wheel drive sports car. earlier were the days in the 80s-90s lot of auto companies came up there own cheap reliable and somewhat beautiful but gem of a sports cars. Of course the Japanese were way ahead of their American and European counterparts. to name a few Mazda MX and RX series, Nissan Z and SX series, Toyota MR2, Renault 5 turbo of course muscle and pony cars were always available in the shape of Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird. But with time, building sports cars became a profession with head over heart, so nowadays its usually difficult to find a less expensive rear wheel drive sports car(mx5 is an exception). I wonder how a rear wheel drive layout had become so costly that no one dares to come up with a RWD(rear wheel drive) sport car. Tata motors has a cheap car called Nano which uses a RWD setup for hatch and it will be interesting and daring to see if they can design a sports car on Nano's platform I am requesting it just for the sake of next generation that cheap rear wheel drive sports cars really existed. Maybe they can come up with the Nano of sports cars.

Air plane - Gasoline Enemy?

Even though we are concerned about liquid gold being ending up in near future but its seems our love will never die for it but maybe in near future it will like keeping a gasoline powered cars will be a status symbol. Since the crude prices are going high like mercury rising in summer automakers are working to switch to alternative energy sources like electric power, hydro power etc but what about these huge air crafts that are increasing day by day as companies are increasing the numbers as well as size of these air planes that just sips several thousands of our beloved fuel in a few hours! We are still calculating what amount of pollution is caused be these airplanes. They cause more risk in densly populated areas. No government is implementing any rules or regulations for such consumptions. More jet fighters are being introduced in forces around the world. People are buying more private carriers or helicopters. Where do governments classify them? Why do all automakers make effort to raise against the partialty done to them. Only lame measures to address this issue SADLY...

Cheaper ways for fuel efficiency

Even though various Automobile companies are working hard to make cars more efficient but in this process the cars & bikes are becoming more costlier. they are silently getting out of reach from the hands of a common man. R&D divisions must come up with far cheaper technologies to increase fuel efficiency. There must be a planet wide project for all colleges and universities to come up with such inventions and these should not be limited to the expensive labs of R&D divisions of various automakers. Outsourcing is another option, instead of carrying experiments in developed countries its quite sensible to shift base to developing countries which are more concerned for fuel efficiency.