REVIEW
2014
In Review
I
t’s a new year, 2014 in the rear-view mirror
and 2015’s staring right at you through the
windshield. Looking back, 2014 was a particularly good year for the car enthusiast, especially the environmental kind. 2014 ushered
in a new dawn with an unrivaled level of commercial production of “green” cars. The playing
field just got bigger with more EV’s and hybrids
being developed.
2015
NEW
The fuel driven cars are greener too! Major car
makers such as Toyota, Jeep and BMW developed and/or enhanced their Eco-design engines. With Eco-mode enabled, the engines will
be “greener” in their operation.
Also, self drive cars made a huge leap towards being a commercially viable reality.
Google showed its prototype off to the world
and went on to promise full scale commercial
production by the end of the decade. In case
your wondering, the self drive cars are exactly
what they sound like—cars capable of “driving
themselves”. You would be no more than a passenger. We in Uganda shouldn’t be too excited
though seeing as its operation is heavily dependent on navigation systems and on-point
traffic systems—none of which are well established in Uganda.
MODELS
Back home, there’s one car that had a blast all
year—Uganda’s favorite son, Noah. If the URA
figures are anything to go by, the Toyota Noah
was the most bought car in 2014.
Meanwhile as Ugandan roads fill up with
pre 2005 car models, there is a host of 2015
models of all our favorite cars, many of them
premiered at the New York and Tokyo motor
shows late last year. Go ahead, flip through, at
the very least, take a look at them.
SCATTERED ALL THROUGH THE ISSUE
All information about the new models
was compiled from www.usnews.com
MotorHub Magazine
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February 2015 Issue