“Design grow on people , it’s similar to fashion. Most new items seem ugly until it becomes ‘cool’ once that happens I guarantee you that people will buy it like hot cakes. Attractive is a […]
“’He could be really helpful, but he could also be hyper-competitive,’ added John McElroy, who often had Dunne on his TV show, Autoline:Detroit. ‘He was hyper-competitive and never wanted anyone muscling in on his gig,’ […]
“Over the last 40 years or so, legal academics have been insisting with increasing stringency that corporations that consider anything other than shareholder value in choosing their actions are derelict in their duties. As the […]
“Raymond Loewy, who along with his industrial design firm, had been involved with Studebaker since the 1930s, was enlisted to help with designing the new small Studebaker. In the oral history interview Churchill confirmed that […]
“Most of this offroading is laughable because it is just a vanity project. Look at the photo (in the story) – the Jeep could have driven around a puddle of water, but he went across […]
“. . . I always considered myself an average designer, because there were so many good designers. I was very successful because I knew that you had to sell the design to the manager and […]
“Oh how I wish that an automaker of today would give this formula a try, once again: Decent performance, decent handling, impeccable materials and build quality in a light, no nonsense, affordable package. Problem is, […]
“The future is manufacturing robots similar to the Ford courier robot. . . . I’d bet within a few decades robots in the home will be common. Imagine if you had to make a decision […]
“But the largest and certainly most demonstrable lemminglike behavior in this business is model proliferation. It’s loosely based on the philosophy that if a car company utilizes its vehicle architectures efficiently to create more models, […]
“By the turn of the 20th century, horseless carriages had replaced horse-drawn carriages in most major American cities. In 1901, an estimated 38 percent of cars in the United States were electric, 40 percent were […]
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