[factoryrat]

Style and substance take a back seat to build costs and federal regs in the auto industry. Even if you designed the coolest car ever, the design would never get past the accountants or federal regulators. The prototype shops are full of the bones of cool concept vehicles that were shot down by the corporate brass. All you get now are soviet era trabants and hand me down fiats.

[count-your-change]

George Romney (not Mitt) was one of those bean counters who could not understand why two halves of a car body could not be built, painted at the same time and then welded together into one.
Part of a presidential “brain trust” I hear. I guess that means you have to trust they have brains because they sure don't show it.