if you search him 3 people come up and none of them designed cars although that concept looks like a literal land yacht and would probably be as big and weigh as much as a C/K10 from the era
that one is very interesting considering GM was against racing factory cars, if you wanted to race a GM car you had to buy it yourself- hence the secret race programs Chevrolet and Pontiac had
Chevrolet and Pontiac got away with it because of the markets they where targeting, young people with money
I seem to like this designer. Definitely a good GM designer in my book, though there are plenty of more good ones. Here's some designs from somebody else who was a GM designer as well:
Those look like the production version with a few tweaks High Performance Pontiac, when it existed ran a series of what if cars, you can look trough them here http://www.hotrod.com/contributors/don-keefe/
Despite cars these days being much less long-lasting than they used to be, average car age is on the rise. In 2007, the average age of a vehicle in EU was just 8.4 years, while in 2015 it was already 10.7!* In US, a record of 11.5 years has been set in 2015.** Contrary to a populary belief of inferior reliability, petrol cars stay on the road for much longer than diesels.*** For example, in Austria, the average age of a diesel car is just 5.9 years vs 8.3 years of petrol car.*** In Bulgaria, it is 4.8 vs 7.5, in Ireland - 4.8 vs 7.2, in Italy- 5.6 vs 8.8, in Latvia- 3.6 vs 11.3 and in Netherlands- 5.8 vs 10.4.***Notable exceptions are Lithuania (diesel- 10.44, petrol- 5.2), Cyprus (11.1 vs 8.98) and a couple of other countries.*** However, this could be explained by more restrictions and bans being imposed on old diesels. *source- ACEA **source- LA Times ***source- EEA
Perhaps average journey distance and other similar factors may have an effect on this? I guess things like average displacement of each type of engine could be interesting to know. I would be interested in evidence to suggest that modern cars are less long lasting. My understanding is that older cars used to break down more frequently and generally rattle themselves apart over time. With far worse build quality. Standard warranties have gone from universally being 3 years, to 5 and 7 being offered by many brands today. Perhaps it could be an unwillingness to have a car that doesn't feature the latest conveniences. Also an unwillingness to maintain and fix things maybe? General throw away culture stuff. EDIT: In the UK, most taxis and commercial vehicles are diesel. These are likely to be driven much higher mileages in shorter time periods. Wonder if that is a significant enough proportion of data to skew the results?
Guess who's SY Rodius is going in for another regas and repair. So here's the story... 2012 Rodius, no A/C so it is fixed + regassed and cold, 3 weeks later it's not working. Regassed again and repaired again (didn't they repair it already?) and now after 4 weeks it is very weak and will probably conk out in another two weeks or so. @MarkosRuiz Does your dad's SY Rodius have working A/C? How well does it cool the car and what temperature outside do you have?
Find a better mechanic? Or take it back to them and ask them for a discount for having failed to fix the problem twice. Since it sounds like they aren't doing a good job of repairs if it has broken twice in the same time frame. Just make sure to explain to whoever you end up at that it has broken twice in two months already, so they are aware that there might be something non-obvious. Since it sounds like the previous mechanic only fixed the symptoms of a problem, rather than the problem itself.
yep some strong words will come their way I don't think any other garages will touch the aircon as it is SY and not well known. It's also really complex. Two evaporators, two Condensors, three condenser fans. Their excuse is that it is all rusted away (at 2012?).
Also, survivorship bias - the only older cars to survive were the ones built well enough to stay on the road. He probably used to take acid on the job, that is all I can say.
