RE: CAR BRANDS
March 25, 2015 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2015 at 12:36 pm by JuliaL.)
(March 25, 2015 at 11:51 am)pocaracas Wrote: I've always had the impression that american cars were these big gas guzzling tubs... Very wide, very long... not at all equipped for the european city environment -
Is Lexus still the high end Mitsubishi?
I used to give credence to the European contention that US cars are crap/fat until I visited Britain. By and large, their roads are what we would call alleys.
Things like smart cars exist here, but they constitute an extreme statement that 1) I am ecologically thoughtful (though I still have a carbon footprint the size of a large Chinese village) 2) I don't care about personal comfort or safety.
US cars fit niches in the US where a thousand km will take you to your in-laws for dinner. Within a few percent, England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland have the same area as Wisconsin & Minnesota. Our designs have suffered for a number of reasons involving economics, unions, CEO salaries and the drain of engineering talent into defense industries, healthcare and IT. It is not entirely because we are creationist knuckledraggers.
Lexus was an outgrowth of Toyota with a name change to separate itself from what was considered an economy brand and into a luxury (read 'high profit margin') market.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
