On 21 Apr 2021 at 13:09, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > Most of the big automakers can't even sell normal sedans anymore, let alone a > super-lightweight "city" car. Just not going to happen.
And yet, somehow Volkswagen sold over 21 million Beetles. They sold enough of them to prosper even when Detroit was building gigantic, gas-guzzling, 12mpg V8 powered sedans. They sold them even in the face of dire warnings about how unsafe they were in collisions with those gas-guzzlers. The real reason that automakers don't sell small cars now is that they don't advertise them. The only vehicles they advertise are pickup trucks, SUVs, and crossovers. They WANT small vehicles to fail, because they make less profit on them. In the 1960s and into the 1970s, a large part of the reason that Volkswagen sold Beetles in an America obsessed with "bigness" was that they advertised them creatively, via a brilliant and whimsical advertising campaign created by Doyle Dane Bernbach. http://designbeep.com/2011/12/21/remembering-the-beetle-30-volkswagen-ads- from-the-1960s/ https://swipefile.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nobodys-perfect-vw-ad.jpg David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = It is well known (Potts, 2014; Catcher, 2014) that the internet is made of cats. The net is a series of tubes (Stevens, 2006) through which cats carry information in packets (Butterworth, 2011). The failure modes have been less well studied. Several exist, but to date the most researched are fracture, disjunc- tion, and joule-based disruption. FRACTURE causes complete regional internet failure. It occurs when construction or other human activity severs or collapses an underground tunnel through which the cats travel. The symptom of DISJUNCTION is high lat- ency; the usual cause is hooligans placing containers of tuna or cream at tunnel junctions. Data corruption results from JOULE- BASED DISRUPTION, caused by the static charge that accumulates as long-haired cats speed through the tunnels. This shocks the cats, who drop their packets. -- Lolapin (2020) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
