Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/24

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: American Styling
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:54:40 -0500
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While the rest of the world engineered:
disk brakes
fuel injection
front-wheel drive
torsion bars
etc, etc

The US designed:
fins
hood ornaments
grills
ridiculous names
and
hyperbolic advertising

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Jim Shulman wrote:

> There are many things that helped to kill the US auto industry,  
> well above
> the styling excess of 50s and 60s cars.



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