Re: Soldering irons: made in America but designed in Russia?

Apr 21, 2009 2 Replies


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:41:56 +0100, Allus Smith


>>
>>One distinctive feature of US car design is a look I call: "I've just
>>rammed a wall"
>
> If you want to stuff a huge V8 with 200 tons of air conditioning and
> power-everything under the hood, you need a lot of hood.
>
> But Cadillac and most things Chrysler are admittedly over the top. They
> corner the ugly-car-lover market.
>

My second-favorite car actually was car-shaped:

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but mine was green.


Cheers! Rich



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I'm quite impressed at how ugly they've made that. It's the combination of the little back back window and that huge pillar which seals it. Lose the back seats, and glass, chop the roof back to the pillar, turn it into a ute and it'd be a lot less wrong.

In message , Clive George writes

It actually looks as though someone got the basic idea for a pick up truck and then found out they were meant to be designing a passenger car.

Clint Sharp

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