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LMG
GoMoG at
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/GoMoG/
The answer to the "sameness" one finds in automobile
design today does not stem from safety rules or drag
coefficients or even a lack of creativity.
Simply put, today's auto decision makers would be foolish to risk their
financing, their share price
and their stock options on originality. The key is
never to give cause to allow a finger to be pointed at
you. Profits are not a priority, personal survival is.
This is not an environment conducive to bonnet belts
and flared wings.
LMG
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:17:55 Richard Rollins wrote:
>Ed Herman wrote:
>
>> Don't the styles of autos reflect the style of the times? Why do
>> the cars of the twenties and thirties still give people a thrill? Even
>> thoses of us that were not around in the twenties.
>> I thing the late fiftyes aand early sixties were the same. Cars all
>> reflected a search for a new style, and new idea.
>> I'm afraid we lost track of the search in the 70's and 80's. Every
>> manufactuer tried to made their car look like the other guy. That's why
>> I'm dissapointed in the new Audi TT, it looks like a Beatle.
>> Lets all hope that now is a time of devolping some new ideas in auto
>> design. It gives us so much to talk about, and enjoy.
>> BTW did you see the drawings of the new Morgan. You can see the on
>> the GoMog site, Lorne has posted a new article. Not bad.
>> Ed.
>
>Perhaps its not so much that one manufacturer wants to imitate another
>than they all have to bend to the same safety and smog rules, and that
>the airstream design used to make the cars more efficient produces the
>similarities. As someone said, the Morgan has the drag coefficient of
>the Winchester CAthedral. Hondas don't .
>
>Cordially,
>Rich Rollins
>
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