THE MOTOR DESIRE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2666, 19 April 1905, Page 75

THE MOTOR DESIRE.

The recent motor exhibition at '"'Olympia" affords Mr Filson Young a peg foi some pertinent reflections, in the Saturday

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Review recently, on possessing, or the desire to possess, a motor car. "In the early days of motoring, and indeed until quite lately, people thought that the population of this island was divided into two classes — those who liked and those who disliked motor cars. We know now that this is an incorrect classification, and that the two great armies are more accurately described as those who have motor cars and those who have them not. To possess a motor car is inevitably to fall under its spell ; to envy others the possession •>{ it is perhaps to experience the highest possible disgust with the modern world's vulgarity. But there is a further subdivision of the class that possesses motor cars, and enjoys the use of them without undue capitulation to vulgar temptations, for they may be grouped as those who are riding "in motor cars, and those who are not. I confess that for my part I only find the motor car tolerable when I am in it myself ; if I see it from the outside, even "though it were my own car, I detest all it means, and sigh for the simpler life. From which I gather that there is a third attitude towards the motor car, and perhaps the most reasonable, which is found in those people who use, but do not own, motor cars. For is it not the function of this magic vehicle, expensive, troublesome, useful fascinating as it is, to belong to someone else? . -. . They may be ugly enough, these glittering painted carriages — I do not say they are ; but they stand for so much poetry, they entice so much imagination, they are so eloquent ot the road, of travel, of winds and suns end open skies, that even in a motor show they must excite and liberate the sense of beauty in thousands of hearts. They are expensive, and^ there is a pathetic side to their expensiveness. For in proportion to all the throngs and crowds that loiter past the stands, how few there are that buy! How rare is the bona fide purchaser, how common the timid inquirer, who gives himself for a moment the luxury of pretending he is thinking of buying!" 1 saw many wistful glances, heard many sighs, when the question, "How much is that one?' had been answered in a brutal tale of many hundreds ; and I sympathised. We were most of us like poor children in an expensive toy-shop, where nothing costs less than five shillings, and we had only two-pence-halfpenny ; and ' I was myself conscious of the common pang as I gazed with the eye of knowledge upon a long, rakish 45 horse-power Mercedes, and reflected that I should probably never in my life possess one. and that probably no one else in that vast hall would be more capable of enjoying it ! It has a significant side, this wistful passing-by of the thousands who do not buy. Why do they come? . . . They come because, although they know that for them motor cars may be at the moment impossible, they wish to see how nearly within their reach they are coming ; for they all want motor cars. That is a startling fact ; how startling and how appalling it will be when they have all got motor cars I do not like to think ; but the one question with regard to this matter in the minds of 99 men out of 100 is, ' When will they De within my reach : ' The mere fact that this stream of demand has set in means that the supply will come; and looming upon us in the near future I am very certain is the really cheap motor car, with its attendant horrors and advantages. That is what the apparently aimless crowd at Olympia is after ; that is why they are there ; they are waiting for the cheap car, and when it comes they will be ready to take it away with them."