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Old 03-10-2015, 07:17 PM   #21 (permalink)
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The Litestar didn't go over.Aptera is dead on arrival.Loremo.The Corbin Sparrow,under different ownership is still kicking a little,but essentially a dead man walking.The upcoming little trike has been in the pipeline too long now and may be stillborn.
The VW may determine whether anybody is willing to do reduced frontal area.
A past head of GM Styling remarked something to the effect of "we make cars to sit in,not piss over."
Lee Iacocca had open hostility towards econoboxes which he affectionately referred to as "****boxes."
And Madison Avenue,at the behest of large auto makers,has succeeded in planting fear in the mind of the buying public (formerly citizens),with respect to safety,as a function of car size,which went all the way up to the White House.
All the small concepts I've seen have bombed at the international car shows.
There seem to be a deep-rooted psychology embedded within modern culture.
Small means,cheapness,retardation,low performance,inconvenience,individual failure,danger,impotence,austere self-inflicted deprivation.
While billionaire's will willingly crouch into a low frontal area business jets, minimum wage earners recoil in horror at the proposition of driving something sensible and actually within their means.
It's gonna be a tough nut to crack.

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