🚀 go-pugleaf

Leif Erikson wrote:
> Nexus7 wrote:
> 
>> Leif Erikson wrote:
>>
>>> In these horrific excess emporiums in America,
>>> particularly the Fridays/Applebees/Chilis/Max-and-Ermas
>>> chains, no one cares about the food.  It's all an MBA
>>> project, intended to make money.  If the MBAs running
>>> the places thought they could make more money selling
>>> engine valves to GM or collection services to banks,
>>> they'd be doing that.  They don't *care* about food.
>>
>>
>>
>> And you've inadvertently hit upon the problem with the US auto industry
>> too. It is an MBA/actuary/anyone-but-engineer project designed to sell
>> quantity over quality. Whether in pounds or units sold.  A look at the
>> current lard-butt Mustang or Corvette compared to a Miata illustrates
>> the difference in perception of what a sports car should be, between
>> what the same ad agencies that market fast food make it out to be (big
>> powerful engine, 0-60 times compared to that of an Atlas rocket), and
>> what it really about (Fahrvergnugen). And as a practical matter,
>> lard-butted and fed with growth hormones trickling down from animal
>> feed, big fat-assed people can hardly fit in a Miata (by the way, not
>> an American car despite Ford's control of Mazda), and need the
>> Suburbans, the Excursions, and other lane hoggers. Other than
>> sumo-wrestling, it is hard to find a sport overseas where being 300+ lb
>> is a qualification.
>>
>> Yes sir, lb/$ is what America is good at!
> 
> 
> I couldn't agree with you more about the cars.  For a couple of decades 
> I've thought that the American car manufacturers Just Don't Get It, and 
> they plainly don't.  I saw your statement "difference in perception of 
> what a sports car should be", and I almost jumped. For years I've 
> lamented that American engineers just don't have the same sense of what 
> a car should be that good designers, be they European or Japanese, seem 
> to have.

Sports cars?  We don't need no stinkin' sissy sports cars!  We need
powerful Amurican Muscle Cars.

> 
> Across the board, Americans seem to have lowbrow tastes, be it in food, 
> cars, TV, etc.


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