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

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: American Styling
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:57:51 -0400
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Being an adolescent nation is sometimes bad, and sometimes fun

ric


On Jun 24, 2009, at 10:54 AM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> 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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