[Mgs] The Chinese guys don't get it

[Rick Lindsay]

Absolutely! B  I don't have to like it for it to sell. :-P B  B ...just not to me.

Then again, my daily is a Porsche Cayman. B I love it and the Top Gear guys consider it an abomination. B Such is style.

I do like your, "Evolve or die." comment. B Reminds me of another: "Any organism that can't get rid if its waste will perish in that waste!" B :-o

-rick
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-------- Original message --------
From: Richard Ewald <richard.ewald at gmail.com> 
Date: 04/12/2013  6:00 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com> 
Cc: MG List <mgs at autox.team.net> 
Subject: Re: [Mgs] The Chinese guys don't get it 
 
Take a look at the 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe, or Tucson.B  Not that far
different from this concept car. Hyundai is selling the Santa Fe and Tucson
like hot cakes.
Hard to argue with success.
Rick


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a huge segment of the auto industry. It's what people want. Whether
> they
> should or not. It's hard to make a profit on things that the majority of
> people don't want.
>
> Evolve or die.
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Max Heim wrote:
>
> > Never mind the styling -- what proves they "don't get it" is the fact
> that
> > it is an SUV. MG never made trucks.
> >
> > Yes, Porsche makes an SUV, but that is also an abomination.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Max Heim
> > '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> > If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
> > it's the primer red one with chrome wires
> >
> >
> > on 4/12/13 2:20 PM, Don at don at napanet.net wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe it's beautiful and we are too old or of the wrong culture to
> >> appreciate it.B  Just like music; one tends to favor the things of
> >> his/her youth.B  I love '50s rock 'n roll, but rock music from about
> >> 1980 on sounds like the Chinese MG looks- awful.
> >>
> >> It would be interesting to get feedback from people of different ages
> >> and cultures as to how they view the Chinese MG.B  I have a fellow
> >> from Honduras who assists me on taking care of my place.B  He is the
> >> same age as me, 63, who came to the US about 15 years ago.B  He thinks
> >> my MGs are ugly, and likes the looks of new Toyotas and Hondas.B  I
> >> wonder if that may be because he didn't see MGs or similar cars when
> >> he was a kid and young adult.
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Don Scott,B  Calistoga CA USA
> >> 1955 MGTF, 1962 MGA Mk 2, 1967 MGB, 1963-7 MGB (seeking), Misc. Japanese
> cars
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 5 PM 4/12/2013, David F. Darby wrote:
> >>> That is a sinister-looking design.
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: mgs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On
> >>> Behalf Of Hans Duinhoven
> >>> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 2:36 PM
> >>> To: mgs at autox.team.net
> >>> Subject: [Mgs] The Chinese guys don't get it
> >>>
> >>> http://www.autoweek.nl/nieuws/23011/mg-met-suv-concept-maar-shanghai
> >>>
> >>> Some new info what the Chinese guys are planning with MG.
> >>> Sorry for the Dutch text - the pics will tell enough.
> >>>
> >>> Nothing to find back of the original MG spirit.
> >>> So they may keep it.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Hans Duinhoven
> >>>
> >>> Still happy with the spirit of my '71 BGT
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