Why bother with the door on the door well? Like really why bother? It could be left open with no door and the passenger could choose to stretch out or not and just sit upright.. it's like they took away legroom to give it back as "stretch space"
Sir, are you planning to have a video for car industries of Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam?
WELL, FROM WHERE I AM SITTING, as an old man with cig & hot coco, the DUESENBERG ERA LOST A VERY IMPORTANT PARALLEL. That would be the GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD !!! In England you have the time honored tradition starting in 1909 of the hand built MORGAN sportscar for Gentlemen and a year wait. If you are stinkin' uber rich go for an AMG Maybach or Rolls. Even Bentleys are more mass produced these days, and you get common problems like headliner (inside interior ceiling) Separation. Socioeconomically, post WWII was the nouveau riche THAT WERE LESS THAN TRADITIONAL. Then you had the Democratic Rich (NOT POLITICAL PARTY) but a burgeoning middle & upper mild class spawned on by the GI Bill AND the 1960s stock market rise AND the Widespread use of IBM & other MAINFRAME COMPUTERS. They affected a big rise in productivity, horizontal integration of corporations (shoes & furniture & .... etc.) It also helped to speed up mergers & acquisitions & stock sales. 1960s BOOMERS wanted their own brand of REBELLIOUS CONSUMERISM. SOCIETY WAS SEGMENTING !! PEOPLE WANTED MORE BUT DIFFERENT. THE DUESENBERG WAS BECOMING LESS OF AN ICON & MORE OF AN ARTIFACT. The mid 1960s was the start of the Muscle Car Era. As other countrys' economies in the 60s were recovering from WWII, America was being flooded with imports (Honda Motorcycles, etc.). My pount for this new latter class of UMC, a mass produced Cadillac or Lincoln was sufficient to separate you from the riff raft. UNLESS YOU HAD MILLIONS IN ASSETS IT DID NOT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A NEW, HAND BUILT, LUXERY AUTOMOBILE, ESPECIALLY FOR EVERYDAY USE.
All your stuff is good, Ed. This one is very insightful & weaves history, styling, & American industry evolution into a very fine presentation. Thank you.
Great video! I liked your Automation designs, I actually did a quick rough design for a new Edsel Crossover suv, I did it for a background billboard for a concept art painting, my design ideas were much different from your philosophy, the one I designed wasn't necessarily based on any existing Ford, but I suppose it'd be based on the Escape's architecture, again it's meant to satirize Canada and America's dumb obsession with cookie cutter SUVs, also my design was going for a hyper-clean and hyper-modern approach as i knew that Edsel always wanted their cars to be cutting edge and futuristic much like Studebaker! Again, great video, I've recently been picking up on u channel and I love the content, thank you :3 I'd like to show you my Edsel crossover design if u wanna see it
Chrome made the cars look beautiful and expensive. Today, cars have no style, and they look bloated. I can't tell one manufacturer from another any more. With all beauty and design gone, the prices are astronomical. Worse, there aren't many cars left. It's hard to see over the tall vehicles. People are not getting more space in the new vehicles. I can get much more into my long, deep trunk and inside my back seat than my friends can get in their vehicles. I had a 2-door 1976 Thunderbird when it was new. It was blue metallic with a white vinyl top and white leather interior and opera windows. It was the most beautiful car I ever had. Unfortunately, it came with a standard 460 engine, so its mileage was miserable. But what a pleasure it was to drive!
I was there! I had such a blast looking at all those regular quirky cars. And all the people that attend these kind of events, such a nice bunch of people!
One of my cars used to have really long antenna. Instead of a ball i had rubber duck at the tip of it. Also weird fad in Europe was a nodding dog, i never understood why so many people had it on the dashboard or rear parcel shelf
Saw a quote saying "i wanted ai to do my chores and maths so i had time to make music and do art, but we got ai that makes music abd art and all thats left is my chores." And thats how i feel about this as well.
I find the pronunciation of Hyundai around the world oddly humorous. When I was visiting Europe, all the ads pronounced it the way Ed was. But here in the USA, they had a whole ad campaign of "Hyundai, pronounced like Sunday"
Because GM or whomever makes Cadillac couldn't be the top dog in anything but displacement, fuel inefficiency and low power-to-weight ratio. *I will say though that those Fleetwoods and Park Avenue type "land barge" vehicles are immensely charming. There's no denying that.
My car is a Saab, designed and built in Sweden by a Swedish company, albeit with some standardised parts that are mostly german and it was an export model sold new in Italy, so it's definitely European.
Hey let’s do the experiment on an island. Not to stir public interest by any chance 😮 no wonder this wasn’t no success. In the next decade tesla sold their roadster to movie stars, that’s how it slowly started to gain momentum
Fuzzy Dice gives your car +10 Charisma, +5 Endurance, and +25 Speed. It could decrease your defense by -15 because it will attract attention bringing people closer to you. Jack in the Box made some awesome antenna balls of Jack's head wearing different motifs depending on what's going on like a movie or something.
I believe the 57 Bel Air was the most iconic design of the mid 50's and still the absolute most popular even today, my Dad had several of them and probably the earliest car I remember riding in was a black 57 hard top . They should have ran that series at least until 1960 IMHO.
The more I dive into automotive history the more I realize "On the verge of bankruptcy and/or going out of business!" Has been the life story of Chrysler! Sort of surprised, thinking back as a kid in the '90s and teen/young adult in the '00s some of the most popular and common vehicles I'd see were Dodge Ram 1500, Dodge Intrepid and of course the minivan's! My first vehicle was a '94 Plymouth Voyager minivan for $700, it was super reliable and was taken on many long distance road trips. Only bad experience was my serpentine belt breaking in the middle of nowhere while driving back home for college or work one day, don't remember which but needless to say I didn't make it. Only time I've ever had to hitchhike 😂
My first car was a hand-me-down 1959 Chevy Bel Aire that was 10 years old and had been our second family car for years. Dad had "splurged" on a 1970 Ford Maverick and the 1964 Chevy Impala Super Sport was turned over to mom. My '59 had once been red but was now kind of pink. Motor mounts were so bad that whenever I hit the pedal the front end of the car would first rear up. But it was mineI Got a whole 100 bucks when I sold it a couple of years later.
The America's being like "Dawg just go to any small town and you'll see 8 XG's" Also, to touch on WiLL, it wasnt just cars and Toyota. It was everything and everyone from cameras to refrigerators to stationary and Panasonic to DoCoMo to Minolta
At 10:40 it took my eyes a second to understand what i was looking at. "What in the world is that feature?" And then i realized that the windmill was in the background. 😂
Weirdly, there are TWO pieces of the last Saab 9-5 generation parked on the same streeet on my way to my son's school. Probably the highest concentration of those in the world :) And no, I'm not in Sweden.
I love that Dudok petrol station! Was it already there or did they bring it in as a kit and assemble it for the show? There's one of those in Groningen too.
