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08/09/2013 2:50 pm
(PIC)Span-A-Ramic Windshield.......Really!
Come on . . . I mean really, when's the last time an automaker (in as far as pleasing the masses), over the last 50 years, has even come close in getting things so right when it came to elevating the product designs, along with the minds, of their customers! Whatever happened to the cascading waterfall of great ideas and innovations flowing out of GM Styling year-after-year, decade-after-decade (from the early 30s into the 60s) all aimed at the buying public like the two innovations mentioned in this ad; "Span-A-Ramic Windshield" or "Beautiful Instrument Cluster?"
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08/09/2013 3:04 pm
Problem with the first wrap-arounds was the distortion, but they fixed it later....
There were many more 'innovations' back then as there are today like: blue-tooth, voice activation, GPS, electronic display/touch screen dashboards, traction control/anti rollover, ABS, CVT's, hybrids, all electric cars, satellite radio, LED head/tail lights, etc. and many more that doesn't come to mind right now. The problem is that all these new 'innovations' are so commonplace that we just take them for granted. Yes, a lot of the current ones were around many, many years ago but weren't refined enough to make a go at it.
08/09/2013 3:07 pm
Judging by the list above and what we see on the road -
It would seem most innovations don't involve styling anymore. Just functions.
08/09/2013 3:09 pm
I guess that is true...
08/09/2013 3:33 pm
That's because styling is designed in the wind tunnel. There no way around...
... that current reality because making a car slippery in the wind in a necessary priority. Form follows function is the current vogue today.