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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:51:51 -0500
- From: "Jason M. Roth" <jr4q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: What's Wrong with American Cars?
- In-Reply-To: <1k270sINNnn8@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- >I think the Europeans have got the styling fairly right.
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- Ah, I see, so in the Platonic world of Ideas, when one sees "car", it's
- a Citroen?
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- I'm pretty sure that, of all the subjective issues in cars, styling is
- perhaps #1, and therefore the most pointless to discuss.
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- Case in point:
- Whichever car mag has the "Counterpoint" boxes had, for the Olds 88,
- the following [paraphrased] comments in consecutive notes: "the styling
- is American Ornate, as bland as possible" and "something here has hit
- the elusive style target", and the latter guy was referring to hip types
- who drive Cherokees, etc.! So why mention it!? When they discuss the
- Lexus SC400, they spend half the article on styling (Porsche-derivative,
- if you ask me), and let that be part of the reason for calling it
- "perfect". But what if I find it only middling attractive? Should I buy
- it? Hard to tell from them.
-
- Sorry, I've wanted that out of my system for awhile....
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