JackYan.com
Jack and Aston Martin V8 Vantage Monaco street signs
Jack Yan: the Persuader blog
  Click here to go to home pageWhat I stand forMy stuffWhat others have recently saidMeet some of the coolest folks I knowDrop me a line Visit my workplace
> My stuff > The Persuader Blog


20.7.06

Tailpiece 

One more for the nuts (if there are no more surprises as with MG Rover) in what has practically been ‘ Week’ here at my blog.
   I’ve noticed all these people copy this one influential car ’s style, despite none of them giving him much real recognition when one of his earliest models appeared. You know who I mean. And now, when you look at the side of some sedans, you see the same technique used at the boot or trunk: a visible shut line. It’s as though the bootlid is a little shell, so to speak. The rear window finishes higher than the car’s beltline, and the bootlid begins there, “reaching down” to the beltline.
   In the past, you couldn’t normally see the shut line of the boot of a car from the side. But now, I’ve seen it on the Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse, the Lexus IS, the Toyota Mark X and Camry, the Maybach 57 and 62, and the Honda Legend.
   Get on with it, guys. You, too, . Stop copying the 1995 (or Lantra or Elantra, depending on where you were born). It’s been 11 years since we saw this.

Hyundai Avante
Post a Comment  Links to this post

Comments: Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

 

 

Note

Entries from 2006 to the end of 2009 were done on the Blogger service. As of January 1, 2010, this blog has shifted to a Wordpress installation, with the latest posts here.
   With Blogger ceasing to support FTP publishing on May 1, I have decided to turn these older pages in to an archive, so you will no longer be able to enter comments. However, you can comment on entries posted after January 1, 2010.


Quick links

Surf to the online edition of Lucire
  • More ramblings at the Lucire Insider blog
  • The Medinge Group
  • Jack Yan for Mayor
  • My Facebook page
  • Follow me on Twitter
  • My Vkontakte page
  • Book me for public speaking
  • Contact JY&A Consulting on business projects
  • Check out fonts from JY&A Fonts
  • Add feeds




    Add feed to Bloglines

    Individual JY&A and Medinge Group blogs

  • Lucire: Insider
  • Summer Rayne Oakes
  • The Medinge Group press room
  • Detective Marketing
  • Amanda van Kuppevelt
  • Delineate Brandhouse
  • Paolo Vanossi
  • Nigel Dunn
  • Pameladevi Govinda
  • Endless Road
  • Avidiva news
  • Johnnie Moore’s Weblog
  • Steal This Brand Too
  • The Beyond Branding Blog
  • Ton’s Interdependent Thoughts
  • Partum Intelligendo
  • Right Side up
  • Headshift
  • Goiaba Brazilian Music
  • Jack Yan on Tumblr (brief addenda)

  • +

    Previous posts

  • Barry’s adventures in DC
  • Driving us crazy
  • A modern CEO defends his patch
  • MG’s Oklahoma deal: not fully OKed
  • ‘Who are these people?’ ‘I’m having trouble contro...
  • Slowly, gently: MG returns to Longbridge
  • Keep it clean
  • Comment allez-vous?
  • Madonna, branding genius
  • Holden launches its billion dollar baby


  • Donate

    If you wish to help with my hosting costs, please feel free to donate.