On 03/12/16 14:19, Huge wrote:
On 2016-12-03, DerbyBorn wrote:
On simple change that must have had a big impact on the rust-free life of a
car must be plastic inner wing liners.
When you see what they are it really makes you wonder why it took so long
for them to become common place.

Because car manufacturers don't want cars to last longer.

When what you have is a billion dollar steel pressing plant, and long
term contracts with steel sheet manufacturers, and a design team who
know steel inside out and backwards, and have never designed a plastic
moulding in their lives, everything tends to look like a steel pressing...


--
"When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics."

Josef Stalin