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- From: krothman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ken Rothman)
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <1993Jan24.141549.16369@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <krothman.727889636@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1993Jan25.170828.3532@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:47:34 GMT
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- zenith89@bcarh1eb.bnr.ca (Chris VanFleet) writes:
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- >In article <krothman.727889636@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> krothman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ken Rothman) writes:
- >>zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
- >>>I'd like to conduct an informal poll here: what do the gentle readers of this
- >>>group think is the WORST car being made today??? (And why?) It must be a
- >>>car still being manufactured, so a 1975 Dodge Dart doesn't count. :-)
- >>
- >>My least favorite car these days has got to be the Chevy Caprice
- >>(and the Buick Roadmaster and the Cadillac Fleetwood)
- >>The design is just completely IRRESPONSIBLE.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Funny, these are my favourites. To each his own.... but, how can
- >you call these cars IRRESPONSIBLE (in capital letters?!)???? Is
- >this some kind of dig at their fuel consumption? A trivial issue
- >if there was ever one... but I think these things do better than
- >a lot of the SUVs that are even more popular... CPV
-
- To me those cars sum up the concept of the generic "ugly American." (i'm not saying you're ugly, however)
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- With all the advances in aerodynamics and ergonomics in design in the past ten
- years (mostly on the part of European and Japanese makers), this beast is an
- unwelcome (imho) throwback.
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- They took the same underpinnings of the Caprice they'd been selling for 10+
- years and put new sheetmetal on it. I just picture Homer Simpson going
- "Ooh... swoopy" at it. Ok it's rounded, but there has to be some science
- behind it. It's just UGLY and if they had put an ounce of thought into it,
- they probably could have come up with a beautiful car but they took the easy
- way out.
-
- Another example of this "ooh swoopy" mindset is the disgusting new Buick
- Skylark. UGLY.
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- Futuristic is ok, but I guess I just like understated looks.
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- Ken
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