Date:         Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:59:52 -0500
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From:         robertmstewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: QT Video of New Microbus From Germany - Reply to Tim's
              "imagination masturbation" statement
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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Yeah Jake, And your the proud owner of it. Hope your enjoying that fantasy.


on 3/3/06 9:37 PM, Jake de Villiers at crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> Have you seen "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" yet?  There's a really
> cool wardrobe in it that is a portal to another world.     :-)
> 
> Probably get one into your Westy!
> 
> On 3/3/06, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If all designers listened to the likes of automobile engineers with
>>> similar
>>> dispositions regarding these ³imagination masturbation² exercises than
>>> nothing of true design impact would ever be created. You would get
>> square
>>> box cars with, hard uncomfortable interiors,  no curves, no innovation
>> and
>>> zero design sensibility.
>>> The industrial designers job is see that it can be done within the
>>> parameters the auto manufactures provide them, and in some cases they
>>> succeed.
>> 
>> 
>> Granted, but there's a difference between a design that pushes the
>> boundaries of modern manufacturing capabilities, and a design that simply
>> cannot be made without the aid of faerie godmothers and pixie dust. The
>> verdier concept westy looks neat, but the designer's grasp of mechanical
>> engineering is practically nil. It is firmly and completely within the
>> pixie
>> dust realm. Maybe I'm just too much of an engineer at heart, but I'm just
>> not intrigued by a design that (to me) might as well have a magic door
>> leading to a 40 room italian villa under the rear seat, for all its
>> plausibility.
>> 
>> --
>> John Bange
>> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com