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To: Proud2BeRight

"Are you saying the interior of riceburners is attractive?"

Well, I will. The interiors of Japanese cars are well put together and lacking in parts that come loose or fall off in the first few years, as well as having controls that are logical, fall readily to hand, and have good tactile feel. Also good-looking materials and decent design (with some exceptions). None of which were things that you could say about most American cars until recently, and still not for quite a few models.


61 posted on 01/19/2007 8:30:45 AM PST by -YYZ-
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To: -YYZ-

Well, I will. The interiors of Japanese cars are well put together and lacking in parts that come loose or fall off in the first few years, as well as having controls that are logical, fall readily to hand, and have good tactile feel. Also good-looking materials and decent design (with some exceptions). None of which were things that you could say about most American cars until recently, and still not for quite a few models.

So when I got in my buddy's Lexis and the window button fell out in my hand when I touched it, that's a quality interior? And logical is where the button direction is sideways for an up-down window function, that's logical?



65 posted on 01/19/2007 8:35:48 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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It should also be noted that GM has the world's largest library on human-machine interfaces and ergonomics, has over the last 50 years spent more money than anyone else to develop and extend this line of research, and even sells this information to other makers and companies.

The weird part is that GM themselves never seems to *use* this information.


74 posted on 01/19/2007 8:47:43 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Nothing has fallen off in my hands or anywhere else on my 97 Chevy Z71 222K miles.


130 posted on 01/19/2007 10:20:24 AM PST by Always Independent
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