andy levy wrote:
>
> On 6/13/2005 21:32, TerribleTom wrote:
> | Beetle, Thunderbird, GTO, Mustang, Charger... are examples of what
> | others are talking about - and what I was talking about. THe trend of
> | these companies trying to cash in on ledgendary nameplates... and not
> | pulling it off well. Thunderbird was a wonderful tribute to the
> | original.. but it wasn't successful because it was tooo retro. It was
> | more eye candy than useful.
>
> I'll give you the Charger, T-bird and GTO (a rebadged Holden just
> reminds us of the crappy GM cars we get north of the Equator), but the
> Beetle I thought (and still think) is a pretty decent modern
> interpretation of the original. And you have to be smoking something
> really, really good if you think the '05 Mustang is just an attempt at
> cashing in on the nameplate - that car may well be Ford's best-executed
> vehicle in recent memory. Just one look at it and you *know* where
> everything on it came from.
>
>
> - --
> - -andy
I guess I got a little wordy and sort of lost track of the point I was
trying to make. I think the Beetle is a total success when it comes to a
modern reworking of the name and the car. I didn't specifically say
that any of the above mentioned cars sucked or were great - I was trying
to illustrate more along the lines of "these cars had precidessors to
which the public compares the new to the old" Where Gabriel and Ed were
saying the Prowler, Viper, PT Crusier started the retro craze - may
not be correct or incorrect... I was thinking along the lines of new
cars with old names - and the issues that surround that. Thats what I
call the "retro craze".. not so much retro style in general - but the
slapping of old names on modern cars. If they are done well or not
wasn't my point.
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