On 1/11/97 3:54 pm pat bailey said
>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
This might to true of run-of-the-mill saloon cars, but not sports =
cars. Look at the MGF and its competitors =AD the Z3, Fiat Barchetta, =
Alfa Spider, Mazda MX5 (Miata), Fiat Coupe, Lotus Elise. Move =
upmarket and you've got the Porsche Boxster, Mercedes SLK, TVR =
Chimera, Caterham 21, Morgan Plus 4. These are all goodlooking, =
distinctive cars which are all very different. I'd say we've never =
had it so good!
Philip Raby
Editor, MG World
PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK
Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 340063 Mobile 0467 767361
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