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		<title>More on American Car Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since my last blog entry (gotta love it when work is so busy you can&#8217;t find time to blog) &#8211; so I thought I&#8217;d get back into things by going back to my most controversial post last year and add an update &#8211; on why American cars are so ugly. At the [...]<img height="1" width="1" src="http://services.nuconomy.com/i.nsi?methId=log&projTok=16fe8ea3-6c&ownus=admin&sver=WordPress%2F1.48+%28nuconomy%29&srcId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedesignfoundry.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F07%2F31%2Fmore-on-american-car-design-2&crtId=148&dt=1328834115">]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Customer Perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have we made a choice between two brands based on our perceptions, rather than reality? And, later on, either found out we made the wrong choice, or that had we made the “other” choice, the result would have been the same?<img height="1" width="1" src="http://services.nuconomy.com/i.nsi?methId=log&projTok=16fe8ea3-6c&ownus=admin&sver=WordPress%2F1.48+%28nuconomy%29&srcId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedesignfoundry.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2Fthoughts-on-customer-perception&crtId=148&dt=1328834115">]]></description>
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		<title>More on American Car Design&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedesignfoundry.com/blog/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got a comment from a reader, who took issue with some of my past comments on why it seems that American car manufacturers seem to design “less than attractive” cars. <img height="1" width="1" src="http://services.nuconomy.com/i.nsi?methId=log&projTok=16fe8ea3-6c&ownus=admin&sver=WordPress%2F1.48+%28nuconomy%29&srcId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedesignfoundry.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2F10%2Fmore-on-american-car-design&crtId=148&dt=1328834115">]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler &#8211; When Design does – and doesn’t – sell…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News today that Chrysler has declared bankruptcy. Wow – really, it’s only 30 years to late. In reality, Chrysler was dead back in 1979 when they took government loans to stave off bankruptcy.<img height="1" width="1" src="http://services.nuconomy.com/i.nsi?methId=log&projTok=16fe8ea3-6c&ownus=admin&sver=WordPress%2F1.48+%28nuconomy%29&srcId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedesignfoundry.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2F30%2Fchrysler-when-design-does-%25e2%2580%2593-and-doesn%25e2%2580%2599t-%25e2%2580%2593-sell%25e2%2580%25a6&crtId=148&dt=1328834115">]]></description>
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		<title>GM and the upcoming bailout&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the upcoming bailout of the &#8220;Big 3&#8243; Automakers, it&#8217;s got me thinking again about &#8220;bad design. Of the three, Ford is actually in the best position financially. GM&#8230;is in the worst. GM is also thinking of shedding a few of it&#8217;s lines, including Saturn, Buick, and Pontiac. The funny thing is, with the exception [...]<img height="1" width="1" src="http://services.nuconomy.com/i.nsi?methId=log&projTok=16fe8ea3-6c&ownus=admin&sver=WordPress%2F1.48+%28nuconomy%29&srcId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedesignfoundry.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F10%2Fgm-and-the-upcoming-bailout&crtId=148&dt=1328834115">]]></description>
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