Pat, I think I saw the answer to your question somewhere before, maybe on
this list: "wind tunnel testing".
Larry Hoy (MGB.Roadster@juno.com)
Denver, CO USA
1969 MGB Roadster
1987 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas
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On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 07:54:14 -0800 pat bailey <pbailey@qnet.com> writes:
>> > The MGF may be a nicer ride, but it just doesn't seem to have the
visual
>> > appeal as the RV8. I may be pickier than most people (the former
art
>> > student in me), but, to me, with the "F" they just created another
>> > Jellybean-on-steroids bubble-mobile car that looks so similar to
>> > everything else on the road
>>
>> Well, I think it looks like "everything else on the road" because
>> it was designed in the same era as "everything else on the road".
>Why are auto designers building cars that all look alike?Are they just
>lazy?Do they think that just because 1 car has been sucessful if they
>make a clone it too will be sucessful?Or are the buying public so bored
>they just don't care?It's a shame that the excitement that the new car
>season brought is gone,every year we would see "preview"articles on what
>the new chevy would look like and would breathlessly wait for the
>covers to come down at the dealers so we could see it!I remember going
>into a showroom to look at the 59 Chevy and I was stunned ,look at those
>fins!Wow 4 count 'em 4 headlights!It was exciting to a 14 year old kid.I
>started drawing cars and cutomizing models(I even won 1st place in a
>hobby shop contest)It just seems sad that this is lost.What is happening
>is the average person is starting to see cars as nothing more than
>appliances that had better just work and not give them any trouble.A few
>"exciting" cars come out but the majority are "cookie cutter clones"I
>agree the RV8 has it hands down on the MGF at least in styling and what
>is a car if not an exercise in styling?I hope the next generation of
>cars on the drawing boards are a little more exciting and this bubble
>look will finally have it,s day.
>Pat
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