Scala - Classes with multiple constructors

Classes have multiple constructors i.e. you can instantiate them in different ways.
In below example, a car be created with make/model/year or just with make/model.
Take note of the class method dispCar and function dispCarDetails to display the information of a car.

import java.io._

class Car() {
   var make: String = "";
   var model: String = "";
   var year: Int = 0;
   var color = "";

    def this(makeOfCar: String, modelOfCar: String, yearOfCar: Int) {
    this()
    println("Creating new car object per first constructor")
    this.make = makeOfCar;
    this.model = modelOfCar;
    this.year = yearOfCar;
    this.color = "Black";
  }

    def this(makeOfCar: String, modelOfCar: String) {
    this()
    println("Creating new car object per second constructor")
    this.make = makeOfCar;
    this.model = modelOfCar;
    this.year = 1990;
    this.color = "Blue";
  }

  def dispCar() {
    println("Car details:" + this.make + " " + this.model + " " + this.year + " " + this.color)
  }

}


object Demo {
   def main(args: Array[String]) {
      var car1 = new Car("Honda", "City", 1996);
      var car2 = new Car("Honda", "Accord");
      var car3 = new Car("Honda", "Amaze", 2015);
      println("")
      println("Displaying car info in main program:")
      println("Car details:" + car1.make + " " + car1.model + " " + car1.year + " " + car1.color)
      println("Car details:" + car2.make + " " + car2.model + " " + car2.year + " " + car2.color)
      println("Car details:" + car3.make + " " + car3.model + " " + car3.year + " " + car3.color)
      println("")
      println("Displaying car info via function:")
      dispCarDetails(car1)
      dispCarDetails(car2)
      dispCarDetails(car3)
      println("")
      println("Display car info via class func:")
      car1.dispCar()
      car2.dispCar()
      car3.dispCar()
   }

     def dispCarDetails(car:Car) = {
      println("Car details via func:" + car.make + " " + car.model + " " + car.year + " " + car.color)
  }

}

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