"Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC)" wrote: > . . . look at the car styles of the 1980's, do you want to be > driving a Yugo or a Cabriolet now? Think of the styles of the > 1950's would you have wanted to drive one in the 1970's? . . .
That strikes me as a bit circular. The more ephemeral a product is, the more it will be designed for novelty; a car designed to last twenty years will, I imagine, be styled more conservatively than one designed to last four years. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
