Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Interior Quality = Engineering? was George's Spitfire vs Vette Shootout

[pbennett (pbennett]

> > ...They all have their own design philosophy...<<

Disagree.  Their UNIVERSAL DESIGN PHILOSOPHY [read:engineering] is to create 
a sale and maximize income derived there-from.
Marketing trumps Engineering.
Factors such as reliability are addresses only if they will have an direct 
effect upon sales income.

IF cars [read: any product] lasted forever it would give rise to a new 
department called "Unreliability Engineering".
Not needed since the laws of science [read:God] dictate a natural wear-out 
of all materials.
[Read: The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay a poem by Oliver Wendell]

If the IRS had a provision that red cars were exempt from tax, all cars 
would be red, regardless of customer desire.

Where is PITA regarding leather interiors?  Where is Sierra Club and cars 
from 1960.  [Their philosophy mandates a '1960s earth policy']
Used to be a '1950s earch' but the Civil Rights Groups insisted on a ten 
year pushback.

Where is Global Warming Groups and their renewable-interior-materials 
policy? [Read:Bring back the British wooden dashes]
Where are the 'hempsters' interiors, they do promote hemp can be used for 
anything!

I recently paid $25.80 for a GM heater temperature knob worth $0.18.  Think 
it created a job.

How's MS doing?  I sure miss him...F1 ain't the same w/o him.