However, after huge booms in car sales in the recovery of the post-WW2 economy, and another surge in power-hungry 1980s and affluent 1990s, the reign supreme of the motor vehicle in its existing form seems to be coming to an end, with car sales dropping significantly and several car manufacturing plants shutting their doors.

A lot of this can be put down to the global recession but with increasing questions over their environmental impact, not to mention the projected shortage of gas and oil in the coming decades, one could be forgiven for thinking that we could be witnessing the beginning of the end for the motorcar, in its existing form at least. Indeed, behind closed doors car companies like Honda and BMW are busy designing new hybrid cars that will run on alternative fuel sources and be much kinder to the environment. That said, until these new cars are ready drivers will continue to use their existing vehicles and the roads will still be humming with engine upon engine of petrol vehicle.

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