As we close the year, we have a lot more coming for you in the new year - from a complete database of cars, to more articles that help you understand your car, and much more!
And as our parting shot, we leave you with our last article for the year, on the Evolution of Hybrid Systems. I have included the article in full below because it is so good for every car owner to read and have a sense of where the car industry is heading (but you should try read the full article linked below as it has more pictures and illustrations!)
Autohaven has also been, thanks to our early investors, I can't list all of them here but thank you so much for your support!
Thank you again for being part of our community. Here's to another year of sharing the road ahead together. Happy New Year, and keep those engines running!
PS: The above image is me next to a Lamborghini Revuelto at the University of Reading this past weekend, where I attended a friend's graduation ceremony(now you know why this newsletter issue delayed :).
TikTok recently shared about the car community on their platform, and it's nothing short of staggering.
89% of TikTokers now express an interest in cars and their main car hashtag is experiencing +25% year-on-year growth in video views!
That changes a lot with car ownership.
Car buyers now prefer to watch other people's reviews of the cars they want to buy.
They also found that many within their auto community are ride-or-die fans - strong 'brand loyalists' who prioritise a car's brand, reputation, and heritage.
This makes platforms like TikTok the go-to place where auto brands can reach their future consumers and actually create their next generation of brand advocates.
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Well how does Autohaven come into this big boy play?
By creating an environment for car enthusiasts to share visual and textual content about cars and showing the same to the right audience.
I know it sounds easier said than done, but we have a plan for this and it's different to TikTok's "post about a car and put these tags" strategy. No, we'll go a few levels deeper than that.
TikTok has done a great job already. We will try to extend that and just for the car community. We do deserve nice things too.
So yes, in the near future you'll be able to share visual and textual car content, in a nice and structured way.
At the moment, you can already share images with text on our car feed, but we will be revamping that to a more complete social media for cars platform!
1. A public chat feed with posts, comments and likes. Kinda like Twitter but with lesser features
2. A custom newsletter system where we have published 20 long form and deep dive articles. It's kinda like Substack and I plan to roll it out to all users to they can write and document their car ownership journeys.
3. The ability to create different kinds of accounts, starting with personal and then business accounts that can have teams.
4. Generated about 6,000 individual cars, from the make all the way to the different trims and specs.
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So what's the plan for the future?
Put simply, I want to make Autohaven the "Google search" for cars.
You will be able to find anything in relation to a very specific car, in a specific Geographical location.
More updates on this in the coming weeks! (hint: this is the golden egg)
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To wrap up, as part of my promise, I will be selling some of my stakes once we are profitable, so my friends and Autohaven users can have some stake in the business too and make some good returns out of it.
But I only want to do that once we are profitable, reducing the risks for you.
And so I am opening this chance to you as well.
If you'd like to invest in Autohaven in form of debt, and get paid back in 6 months with a 10% interest, then you can reply to this email and I will get back to you with the details.
And if you'd like to call me as well, for more details, I am happy to schedule a call with you. Just reply here.
And with that, comes with an opportunity to invest! I will be sharing more details about that tomorrow, to the email list that everyone is on, including you!
So nothing to do yet. Just chill out, maybe read the Twitter post about the launch here.
But more importantly, our terrific writer Sir Robert has been hard at work on our Engine Series and brought us the following two deep articles on Overhead Valve Engines and Chevroletβs Small-Block V8 Engine!
It works, but it's not so great without a community. A social network is as good as its people/users. So for us to have a great social network, we need people on it.
So I've been chiseling away at various solutions to this nagging problem, and I am happy to report that I think I have found a possible answer to that million-dollar question.
The Bank Yes, I think the bank is the answer. The bank of car intelligence, from the manufacturer, everyone in between, to the final car owner and user of the car.
To illustrate, have a look at one piece that I recently added to the bank.
specs and features of a Tesla
It shows a nimble yet probably the most important piece of information you need when making the decision to buy a car - the features and specs you will get in return for your hard-earned money.
And this is just one piece of the cake, a lot goes into it, as I discovered.
And so I am putting together massive data bank of everything cars, which perfectly fits into the vision I had for Autohaven when I started.
Also, I am not dumping in there everything I find on the interwebs, I am critically looking for that needle in the haystack, to present to you the most important bits that you need to know.
The Rack Another probably most important piece to this is the rack, the thing that organizes all this information.
I realize that anything can be found on the web, but the difference in the quality of delivery can be as little as how that information is organized and presented to you. It matters a lot. Which is why we are seeing AI eating Google's cake live.
So I have put some good thoughts and efforts into how this should be organized and presented to you. Including a smart way to search and find what you're looking for!
The Date When is this coming live? Well, some of it is already available on autohaven.io, on the homepage. But that's like only 1/4 of it. I am testing out the remaining 3/4 and it should be landing on Autohaven next week, God-willing!
So watch out, keep a tab, notify a friend.
I do honestly think we are onto something here, and I hope you and I do get something out of it, and all of us win!
Otherwise what do you think of the bank? Is it a good answer to this problem? Let me know in the comments/replies. Or join the conversation on Twitter.
As always, thanks a lot for your support, much love and appreciation π«Ά
Kaka
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On the other hand, my superb writer, Sir Robert, has been hard on the works writing a lot of good stuff about car engines! I am really enjoying his writing.
I am sharing his latest down below, please have a read and share as well! :)
Basically, I am selling my very first car! Yup, the one you all read about when you subscribed to this newsletter, it's looking for a new home.
In quick summary, it's a 2014 Audi A4 Allroad, Premium Plus trim, sleek and in perfect condition. Only driven it for 23k miles as I'm out of the country. My asking price is Ksh 2.8M ($21,700), negotiable.
I shared more about the features here, including why I am selling.
Just respond to this email if you re interested and we can talk!
