When Bush was in office, the US was pretty much reviled throughout the world. Well, maybe not reviled, but definitely not trusted or liked.
So, it seems as if this laureate's major achievement in the international peace line, to date, is simply not being someone else. Rather like giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Louis XVIII for not being Napoleon.
Typically Toyota uses the US market to drive design improvements that they want to make and can't pay for at home via high profit margin specialty items. This is why they created the EV RAV4 way back in 1994 and the first round of PRIUS sedans when California backed off the polution requirements. Those early models were a way to pay the designers and engineers to improve the technology and get smarter without loosing buckets of money. Currently they are packing high demand US cars with extras like navigation (and solar panels starting next year) to increase the volume of the technology they want to use elsewhere on other things to drive down costs. Great smart marketing and management by them when they sucker us into paying high prices for these extras but we want the cars so we pay up and they make a lot of extra profit.......
Honda has been doing the same thing with engine technology in other products like race cars, snow blowers, ATVs and motor cycles for years. The technology and design features discovered and the factories built for one product pays for the design improvements in other places like great small cars......
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They are custom built now, so beyond the willingness of this guy to purchase at $100k+. But, if they ever get to mass production at a price point below $20k (best guess of the company), I would likely get one.
I think they have a unique approach to not only the electric vehicle but to make it "fit in" the existing infrastructure to solve the fossil fuel problem and the freeway overcrowding problem.
Anyway, not an employee or owner of commuter cars; I just think they are cool.
For example I went onto istockphoto last year trying to find a picture of a bikini babe to use on one of my websites. It was impossible to find any pictures of a woman who was not so skinny that ribs were showing. I felt like being a troll and posting reviews on all the pictures saying "feed your models"... but I wimped out.
So, hopefully this controversy will spur ad agencies to realize that the 10 year-old boy look is not the most attractive look to every guy. There are a lot of us out there who like the look of the normal-sized adult woman.
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When Bush was in office, the US was pretty much reviled throughout the world. Well, maybe not reviled, but definitely not trusted or liked.
So, it seems as if this laureate's major achievement in the international peace line, to date, is simply not being someone else. Rather like giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Louis XVIII for not being Napoleon.
Typically Toyota uses the US market to drive design improvements that they want to make and can't pay for at home via high profit margin specialty items. This is why they created the EV RAV4 way back in 1994 and the first round of PRIUS sedans when California backed off the polution requirements. Those early models were a way to pay the designers and engineers to improve the technology and get smarter without loosing buckets of money. Currently they are packing high demand US cars with extras like navigation (and solar panels starting next year) to increase the volume of the technology they want to use elsewhere on other things to drive down costs. Great smart marketing and management by them when they sucker us into paying high prices for these extras but we want the cars so we pay up and they make a lot of extra profit.......
Honda has been doing the same thing with engine technology in other products like race cars, snow blowers, ATVs and motor cycles for years. The technology and design features discovered and the factories built for one product pays for the design improvements in other places like great small cars......
C'est la vie.....
www.commutercars.com They are custom built now, so beyond the willingness of this guy to purchase at $100k+. But, if they ever get to mass production at a price point below $20k (best guess of the company), I would likely get one. I think they have a unique approach to not only the electric vehicle but to make it "fit in" the existing infrastructure to solve the fossil fuel problem and the freeway overcrowding problem. Anyway, not an employee or owner of commuter cars; I just think they are cool.
Yes.
For example I went onto istockphoto last year trying to find a picture of a bikini babe to use on one of my websites. It was impossible to find any pictures of a woman who was not so skinny that ribs were showing. I felt like being a troll and posting reviews on all the pictures saying "feed your models" ... but I wimped out.
So, hopefully this controversy will spur ad agencies to realize that the 10 year-old boy look is not the most attractive look to every guy. There are a lot of us out there who like the look of the normal-sized adult woman.