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maybe I'm just a car nerd but I actually can identify most of the models in that pic. i don't understand this article, is he arguing that car makers should sto
by grillvogel 11y ago
maybe I'm just a car nerd but I actually can identify most of the models in that pic.
i don't understand this article, is he arguing that car makers should stop making these massively popular vehicles and focus on design passion projects? if the people demand a bunch of wacky bespoke 50s style vehicles then the companies will make them.
- pjlegato 11y agoYes. He further argues that competition is bad because it has produced this state. ("Competition doesn’t produce variety, it results in commoditization until we are left with 23 identical variations of the same vehicle.") He fails to note that there are actually many hundreds of other substantially different vehicles available for sale today. He is also evidently unaware of what happens in the absence of competition: far from some sort of designer's utopia of unique individual self-expression, you get one vehicle to pick from, and you have to wait for 10 years to get one -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant