RE: Roads, countries, hot dogs, pizzas, wfo..

["George Collins" <lag@domain.elided>]

What many people have to remember is that the American car industry is
really a Midwestern car industry. GM, Ford and Chrysler are all
headquartered in Detroit, and most American cars as designed for use in the
Midwest. As a rule, American cars are boring vehicles for flat straight
roads with low speed limits and high law enforcement. Most of the engineers
in US car companies have historically come from the same small group of Big
10 schools, and they exhibit very technical innovation because it just isn't
needed. I would think that a manufacturer located someplace else in the
country, perhaps the west coast, would produce a very different type of car.
After all, the percent of imported cars sold in California is a whole lot
higher than it is in Indiana.

That was the reasoning behind Ford moving the Lincoln/Mercury division
headquarters to the Bay area. The first product of that is the Lincoln LS,
which from what the magazines say is the best drivers car Ford has developed
in quite a long time.

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