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Originally Posted by Glen e
The simple fact hat someone had to write about this specific issue means to me that somebody has heard the lights are not being well received for many....
and I certainly would expect a Detriot reporter to be a "friend of the family" - I can see a scene right out of the Godfather - where Sonny says " We got still somebody on the paper don't we? Have him write about it"
J/K.... Scott...
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I don't agree.
Since Harley Earl started 'styling' cars - we've had people who did not like the 'new' car or truck.
Based on that - we as an industry should sell about 100,000 cars and trucks this year......which of course is ridiculous.....
The difference is that the internet gives you instantaneous feedback - and for us old codgers, we simply shake our heads as people 'Demand' that people be fired because someone doesn't like what they see. (...it matters not that others like what they see.......)
We also shake our heads because Mr. Phelan is correct - 99 percent of the time, the 'panic du jour' is over within 6 months - and while some love to beat the horse about the taillamps, I can give you concrete examples of how some said we'd never sell the 5th gen Camaro - either because it was 'hideous' -- 'the SS Fascia' - "the location of the back-up lamps" - the 'horrible steering wheel version 2010' - or the 'horrible steering wheel version 2012" or the 'B-pillar' --
..........and then there was the I/P...............
.......................we'll never get some to love the tail lamps - but while some said that the C7 would never sell - well - go look at the waiting list.
I posted this NOT to get the pot stirred - but that people could see the humor in all of this..............