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Given that:
1. Most cars are hardly likely to be driven fast enough, most of the time, for their drag characteristics to produce much in the way of meaningful fuel savings.
2. Most car design is about as boring as beige.
3. I'm a twisted character with an unusual slant on the world...
I
propose car manufacturers begin producing cars in the sort of designs popular for the floats at parades and the odd Mardi Gras.
e.g.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Centenary of Federation
Pittsburgh Steelers
Giant dildo (a la Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras)
Fun, funky, customised and if they're made out of the right sort of springy stuff, safe too.
This would also make cars rather hard to steal. "Well, Officer, it depicts a scene from the Death of Hector... Achilles riding in a golden chariot drawn by two horses, with Hector being dragged along behind, by the heels. It's pretty distinctive."
Art Cars
http://www.artcarfe...vehicles/index.html
Funny peculiar cars. The Mondrian one is very HB. [stupop, Nov 06 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Have bolt-on styling on top of a structural body. |
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Rods, bags of custard, primed with explosive charges? Could be fun pushing through a crowded pedestrian crossing? |
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Just so long as you make one that my elf can drive. |
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«Could be fun pushing through a crowded pedestrian crossing?» Or better still, if you can't find a parking space ... |
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Roaming the streets of My Silly Town we have a VW Bug with a thatched roof, an old schoolbus with the cabin from a small sailboat for a roof, a flatbed truck with a wooden hut build on the bed, and other unnatural oddities. Of course these are the results of individual artists and not mass-produced. |
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I see these as mass-produced, certainly, but with no two identical. A team of skilled craftsmen customise each vehicle. Often they will have to interpret the client's ideas for their particular automotive folly, having regard to the client's wishes and proclivities. |
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I particularly like the idea of Hector being dragged along by his heels - what made you think of that |
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come to think of it, in the UK there is a fully motorised sofa |
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Computer viruses (virii). |
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Simultaneous mass-production *and* unique self expression? Seems contradictory... |
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If you can *have it your way* with a computer or a hamburger then this is simply a logical extension of that level of customer service. |
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