Steinschmatz

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Let’s be honest: You’re really trying to do your part for the environment. All those animals are indeed cute and deserve a nice, clean habitat. Well then, you reused, you recycled, you rethought your choices. You even tried the train once. And for years on end, you chose cars that fit the bill, low CO₂ emissions, low fuel consumption, low drag coefficient, low fun coefficient.

But the thing is, it doesn’t seem to work. You’ve saved enough money in fuel to buy an extra chocolate bar each month and the complicated systems you’re ferrying around on your daily commute keep finding new ways to get you back to the dealer with fault codes that remind you of your first laptop ‒ including what laptops cost back then. It wasn’t what you dreamt of as a kid, that’s for sure.

The only thing that really worked for you is your own knowledge. Shift early, stay off the gas, plan ahead, stay in the slipstream of larger vehicles, don’t drive half your belongings around in the back, good tires, and most of all: Patience. By now, you’re slipping through traffic like salmon ‒ fluid and elegant, dodging the bears. That’s what works. That’s what pays off at the pump. That’s what your granddad meant. It’s how you drive; physics won’t bend for anyone.

What you needed wasn’t another dreary car that tells you how to drive every 100 meters and then manages to burn the same amount as fuel as your dad’s truck without moving much. What you needed was a responsive, direct, and undiluted machine that you control, not the other way around.

You bought the MT-250.

Your neighbors have no idea what hides under the hood, it’s none of their concern anyways. They don’t hear it either, for it sings when you want it to sing, not a moment earlier. Most of the time you’re gliding along in comfort but the MT-250 is always there, like a young dog, ready to jump from slumber to action at a moment’s notice.

It’s late now, dinner lasted forever. You smile and wake the car as the road opens up.

The Spark is Back.

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