on american way

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...trouble is, the very word "taste" sounds slightly ridiculous to American ears. It seems pretentious, or frivolous, or even effeminate. Blue staters think it's "subjective," and red staters think it's for sissies. So anyone in America who really cares about design will be sailing upwind.

...problem with American cars is bad design. You can see that just by looking at them.

и вообще хорошая статья, рекомендую.

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[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

"All that extra sheet metal on the AMC Matador wasn't added by the workers. The problem with this car, as with American cars today, is that it was designed by marketing people instead of designers."

Shit! Fuck! Exactly! I personally am tired of marketing idiots telling professional programmers what is good and what is bad! Now it seems like marketing people are listening to Sergei Dmitriev - and then we are allowed to do what we always wanted to do. Fine!