John Francis wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:17:32PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- >> From: mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> As an American, I'm not sure you have any say whatsoever regarding taste >>> and >>> automobile design. >>> >> But we still make them. You Brits apparently can't. >> Paul > > I don't know - they still seem to do a pretty good job of designing > and building cars people actually *want* to buy, even if it needs > foreign money to do it. At times it seems as though the major US > contribution is avoiding shipping costs by building foreign models > in US plants. > > Admittedly there's always the Corvette - even the current monster > is a darn good car (albeit *enormous*; when I got behind the wheel > of one when car-shopping a year ago I couldn't believe how wide > the thing was). But for a far smaller market the Brits can offer > the MINI, several Loti, Aston Martin, and even Bentley/Rolls Royce. > >
The Mini is a BMW, the Aston Martin DB9 is a Jag, the Jag X-series is a rebadged Mondeo. Bentley/Rolls are a class unto themselves. Car design these days seems to mostly be german, japanese or aussie. Everybody else mostly seems to just restyle the stuff coming out of associated german, japanese or aussie design houses. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
