Iconic Pagoda

[Peter van Es]

In a recent issue of the Dutch magazine Elsevier (similar to Time or Newsweek) there was an article about how travel has speeded up during the ages, and how recently traffic jams and lack of progress in public transport has caused this reduction of travel times to stop.

In this graphic editorial they used an icon of the W113 as the current car... just goes to show how timeless our car is. I doubt that the graphic editor who selected the icon was aware of the age of the W113.

In the graph below the average speed of a stagecoach (1810), at 8 km/h is compared to that of a train in 1919, with average speed of 50 km/h, and a 2009 car (yes, that's the W113) with an average speed of 87 km/h.

Peter

[Dash808]

Are there no airplanes in the Netherlands?  lol

[JamesL]

Airplanes: I work on the principle that a flight of under two hours will take about 7 hours (experience travelling with a toddler!). That's from door to door. So for Peter it's an ~8 hour? drive to Milan (traffic permitting on the Autobahn), and close to that by plane.

In London, we long ago passed the point where we realised that the Victorians in their horse drawn carriages were travelling quicker than we in our cars on the same roads..... When I can, I cycle or use my Vespa. It's not fast but I know how long it will take, something I cannot say on four wheels of any type

[Iconic]

Are you guys talking about my car? 
No, I guess that would be Iconic's Pagoda.

[Peter van Es]

Are there no airplanes in the Netherlands?  lol

Yes there are. As James correctly identified, for a country the size of the Netherlands, they are essentially useless.

Pagoda's however, are clearly Iconic. Not Iconic's... much as he'd like them to be!

Peter