Hello again Ross....

 -=> Quoting Ross Sauer to Peter Coggon <=-

 RS> The thing is, our "car culture" was pretty much created during the
 RS> 1950's, where car makers sold fantasies, not reality.

  Hmmmm, seem to remember the GM ... "See the USA in your Chevrolet"!

  Post WW2 and Korea and I guess big car sales and gimmicks and the
start to what was under the hood, and that all important tag on the
car "V8" and whatever the motor size to power the rocket.

 RS> They looked at the average car buyer as a kid in a pedal car going
 RS> "Vroom vroom."
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 RS> Cars make you sexy.
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 RS> Cars make you glamourous.
   >
 RS> Etc...

   I'll never forget the years of "fins" on cars and the rocket look
except of course on the highway ....and if high winds they lifted
off the road into the ditch going vroom vroom.

I agree on the "chic" cars and well the gals also had their
"boy grabbers".

Wrapping it all up in chrome and the engine... oh yeah.  Lots more too
you are right.

 RS> The sales pitches nowadays have changed, mostly for the better.
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 RS> They emphasize safety far more.
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 RS> But just watch the average TV ad for a 4-wheel drive vehicle.
 RS> The vehicle is barreling through snowdrifts.

  The is a big difference between the cars you mentioned and nowadays
as laws were passed and all the others we both , all too well know.

Funny as I got to your comments on the 4-wheel there came on TV here
an ad for the KIA...in the gargae...snowplow goes past and the KIA
pulls out and over the pile left by the plow ...  Yeah... nice going
Ross.

 RS> In reality that's a good way to run into something far more solid. 

   Hmmmm ... yeah I thought about that in the ad too 

 RS> The one thing that still pisses me off about cars today, is the number
 RS> of electronic gadgets being pushed.
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 RS> GPS maps are one thing, accessing the Internet or watching a DVD while
 RS> driving is just plain stupid.

 Aaah Ross..but the beauty of all this electronic stuff is you can not
repair it in your driveway...you have to bring it to the shop.

 They recently talked here about GPS and driving and the distraction
but in lots of countrys they don't allow drivers to do this or others.

 Ross... a note before I go.... I see those commenting on your original
posting have got you on  a motorbike and not cycling along on the
pedals .    Spring is nearby ...as I just saw a neighbour, out on
his bike , pedaling up the road.    Times are changing Ross....
time are changing....
                       ttfn
                             Pete
 

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