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Le/On18 Oct 96 @ 12:21, vous ecrivites/you wrote:
> Marc Dufour wrote:
> >
> > Le/On17 Oct 96 @ 14:50, vous ecrivites/you wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > > If you work for an auto company, you know that sadly there are
> > > many designs that are dictated by know nothing government
> > > bureaucrats.
> >
> > If the cars were properly designed (by *REAL* engineers instead of
> > cost analists and stylists) in the first place, they would have
> > been no need for "clumsy" government regulation. The industry is
> > the sole responsible for this lunacy.
>
> If you are ever in the Detroit area and are so inclined, let me know
> and I'll show you around Chrysler's engineering center. I think if
> you could see some of the "real engineers" and their work you might
> feel differently.
Oh, I must admit being extremely "shocked" the first time I saw an
Intrepid - a sportscar fan friend of mine, while shopping for a
family car almost signed for one, except that he backed-off when he
learned that it was not available with a manual transmission...
I meant that the "clumsy" government regulation was imposed because
the automakers would not deliver safe cars in the 1960s and 1970's,
as costers and stylists would insist on having safe designs rendered
unsafe for cost cutting (like the $4.00 Convair torsion bar or the
Pinto's gas tank holder) or simply by adding grossly unsafe features,
like protuding sharp knobs on a unpadded dashboard in a car without
safety belts.
Nowadays, engineers are concentrating on finding ever cheaper ways of
assembling cars, with the result that car owners cannot fix their own
cars unless they get expensive specialized tools...
Needless to say, I'm not really impressed, and all this makes sure
that I will never own a car (I'm 34 and I have yet to have a driver's
licence).
If you ask me, there was only one car worthy of that name, and it was
the Citroen DS-19. An uncle of mine made a dune buggy out of one, and
we'd go trough plowed fields at 100 km/h. It felt like we were
running on a cloud...
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