You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
So here’s the way I see it. The reason for your long circle around the automotive drain is partially because you have been building ugly cars for decades. Back in the day, when TV was black and white and gas was a nickle, American Motor Muscle was king.
Then American designers got lazy and stopped listening to the customer. To borrow a line from Animal House; “Fat and lazy is no way to go through life, son.” But that is exactly what American motor designers did. They got fat and lazy and stupid. They started drinking on the job and designing boxy cars with no imagination. You might as well have rolled these piles of crap off some assembly line in Communist Romania.
Instead, the jerk probably got a big bonus.
In my estimation, American car company’s gave up. Like a football team with a lead in the 4th quarter, they began designing not to lose, instead of building cars that would win.
These classic American cars were replaced with tepid farts on boring chassis. Muscle cars that once made a man proud, were replaced with rancid stains of pedestrian plastic. Drawing boards that once sparkled like treasure in a Gold Rush River were now wrapping paper for stinky fish.
As we produced the GMC pacer, the world’s auto makers laughed.
BMW made sports cars that reeked of raw sex. Mercedes produced luxury cars that inspired men to greater aspirations in life. Lexus and Honda were durable, and superbly built.
Those etchings of super fast, super crazy sporty, kick ass machines that usually don’t get built because they are too futuristic. Well, here’s a crazy ass suggestion, build them.
Now drive faster or get out of my way!