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Bloody Audi...?Originally Posted by George
I'm talking about the everyday "dependable" car. Not the cars I might use for enjoyment ... the ones that work particularly well with the hard-sided Hermes leather luggage in English tan.Originally Posted by RSS
Bloody Audi...?Originally Posted by George
The A8 comes with Hermes luggage? If I lease an A8, do I get to keep the Hermes when I return the car at end of lease?Originally Posted by mussel
Have you ever been in a A8? It's not exaclty your housekeeper's Audi. I say that recalling a conversation with a Maybach driver in Hong Kong. I commented that I didn't feel the need to drive a Maybach given what Mercedes offers. He responded, "This is Hong, Kong. The gardner drive Mercedes."Originally Posted by RSS
It's just not a car that I think fits the image of RSS. It's comfortable, refined and well buit for sure, but it is also bland like a lot of large German cars.Originally Posted by George
Sometimes that bland German car can be quite useful. I recall a time when my mechanic put it this way: "Given the seven vintage cars you now own, I can almost promise you'll have a car to drive on a daily basis." But, yes, I do prefer the style of a "Morgan-ish" sytle car. Now George, I hope you don't take this attitude when it comes to airplanes. I really don't want to trade in my current one for a Lockheed Electra Model 10E.Originally Posted by RSS
I was not aware that Juan Trippe was an engineering concern.Originally Posted by RSS
Pan Am...?Originally Posted by George
What I mean is that [modern] planes aren't designed to look pretty, even though they may have a certain beauty, this beauty is derived from engineering concerns not aesthetic ones.Originally Posted by George
Yes. Not completely true. For example, the upper deck on the 747 was Juan's idea. It did not originate with Boeing or the engineers. Then again, I've never thought of the upper deck of the 747 as particularly beautiful ... but it is a significant part of the design. But in all sincerity, beauty is often very much one of the first concerns of the companies that build planes. Given that my family is associated with the founding of a company that keeps a significant percentage of today's aircraft aloft ... I know this for a fact.Originally Posted by RSS
Well, when I worked in aerospace I never saw any intentional aesthetic component to plane design, in the 'golden age', maybe...Originally Posted by George
I think the very shape of aircraft lends them a beauty.Originally Posted by George
Also, bear in mind I'm talking about the outside of the aircraft, not the interior.Originally Posted by George
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