In the late '50's and early '60's, the old guard of industrial designers were either dying off or retiring, so they lost the influence of men like Harley Earl and Raymond Loewy. At the same time, the auto industry was being overrun by MBA's who cared less about design and engineering than P&Ls and dividends. For them, building cars was less important than how to diversy the profits derived from new car sales. IMO, that's why innovation and quality began to suffer.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "cat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:22 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 40030] Re: Possibles subjects: Car of Tomorrow 1950 /2010 > > DougT wrote: >> Those Cars of Tomorrow speculations from the middle 20th century >> always look whacky. :~) > > But they fit with the future as imagined at the time. > I always liked the Pontiac Firebird (not the one from the 60's and up) > and Club de Mer, as well as the Lincoln Futura (which became the > Batmobile on TV) and Ford Levacar (a GEV which was a sort of predictive > metaphor for the US auto industry since it was impossible to steer or > make go anywhere except down) Ah, the 50's and early 60's had some > wonderfully wild and daffy concept vehicles. Where did all that > creativity go? > > cat > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
