Car Stuff
Tam on copycatting. Seems to me most cars look the same today. The only standouts are made by government motors and those guys who are now in the gun biz.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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December 21st, 2011 at 1:09 pm
“Seems to me most cars look the same today.”
And all this stuff they call “music” these days! Why, back when we were their age… 😉
December 21st, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Have you seen the front end of the 2012 Charger SRT8? It looks like the wretched offspring of a Charger and a Nissan GTR.
December 21st, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Out of those “12 great cars”, all but two are hideous hunks of aluminum and plastic. The ONLY two worth mentioning were the Moran Roadster and the Land Rover, with the Land Rover being available in a different, just as reliable model.
December 21st, 2011 at 3:04 pm
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December 21st, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I take another approach. Have you noticed that all bullets look pretty much alike? It’s because there are only so many ways you can make something and have it move smoothly through the air. When you’re trying to squeeze every possible MPG from an auto design, you spend time in air tunnels watching air flow. Of course all the cars look alike.
December 21st, 2011 at 5:14 pm
PawPaw, that’s really not a good analogy. Car designers have a lot of room to make stylistic differences among the aerodynamic shapes.
A few years ago, I had picked up a Mercedes Benz S class sedan – one of the W126 series cars. I ended up scrapping it when the engine went out because a replacement engine cost about twice what I’d paid for the car, and twice what I could replace the car for, but I really miss that car. No one thought I was driving anything but a Mercedes.
December 22nd, 2011 at 12:45 pm
SPQR, when Benz started boring O2-sensors into their who-knew-how-fragile exhaust manifolds, my mechanic was doing a land-office business dropping 350 Chevrolets in there. I know that sounds like Grace Slick’s Aston Martin, but it really was a fundamentally better car. Wish you could have met him then.