Althouse: "What you get when a piano maker designs a car."

१८ डिसेंबर, २०१५

"What you get when a piano maker designs a car."

This.

Me, at slide 6: "Whoa! Do you really want that thing between your legs?!"

१३ टिप्पण्या:

rhhardin म्हणाले...: I have their piano. It's pretty nice, and comes with an unsurprising bench.; १८/१२/१५, ११:३४ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: The driver's seat needs affirmative consent.; १८/१२/१५, ११:३७ AM
mikee म्हणाले...: Consent all you want, just try not to stop suddenly.; १८/१२/१५, ११:५६ AM
ddh म्हणाले...: It looks to me as if the steering wheel and the shift column are centered between the two front seats. Where would the brake and accelerator pedal go? Is this design supposed to be for right-side-of-the-road countries like the US or for left-side-of-the-road countries like Japan? Either way, it looks weird.; १८/१२/१५, ११:५७ AM
Sigivald म्हणाले...: Piano maker?

Yamaha makes motorcycles and powersports equipment, much more relevantly.

(ddh: It's right-hand drive in the pictures; wheel's on the right, shifter in the middle, pedals on the right. See pictures 6 and 7.

Note that the "shifter" is not a manual transmission anyway - if you look at C+D's superior gallery we can see it's a push-button P/D/R automatic or CVT or automated-manual [they did not release any drivetrain specifics].

So the shifter location is more or less irrelvant; you only touch it when starting, stopping, or reversing, not in general operation.); १८/१२/१५, १२:२२ PM
ddh म्हणाले...: Sigivald, you're right. The design is for the Japanese market, and no one straddles anything.; १८/१२/१५, १२:३३ PM
Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...: Whoa! Do you really want that thing between your legs?!

What you get when a motorcycle maker designs a car.; १८/१२/१५, १२:५६ PM
Peter म्हणाले...: "the Sports Ride is hiding a dirty secret under its swoopy, scaled-down hypercar curves: It is a super-lame transportation pod car."

Basic car to sports car has been an enduring formula ever since Ford restyled a Ford Falcon into the 1965 Ford Mustang. Nonetheless, car makers are oriented toward volume, not 1000-sales-per-year specials: when they come up with something hot, they want to sell a lot of them.; १८/१२/१५, १:२२ PM
eddie willers म्हणाले...: Whoa! Do you really want that thing between your legs?!

You, maybe.
Meade, never.; १८/१२/१५, २:४६ PM
Phil 314 म्हणाले...: That's what she said.; १८/१२/१५, ६:३३ PM
JCC म्हणाले...: Where do you put the dog?; १८/१२/१५, ९:२० PM
walter म्हणाले...: That Yamaha logo/symbol is damn ugly.; १९/१२/१५, ११:३९ AM
walter म्हणाले...: Blogger rhhardin said...

I have their piano.
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No domestic alternatives anymore?; १९/१२/१५, १२:११ PM