Like a made-over girl, the Lexus IS is back in a daring attempt to be pretty convertible except it’s still ugly and only fools will be vying for it. The rear-quarter is appalling, hard top convertible force a long, flat trunk which makes the car profile into a shifty mess. Overhangs in the front and the back are scary long and seldom does a c-pillar swoop so ungracefully into a flat line. With the aging Lexus SC, I imagine the chiefs thought this could offset some of the droptop angst in luxauto (A4 Cabriolet, G37 drop top, 1 Convertible, 3 Convertible) but this thing is just awful.
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I haven’t provided the dates on the chart because they aren’t important. The auto business is highly cyclical because consumers are buying expensive assets that last for years at a time. Nobody ever really has to buy a new car (they can buy a used one if their car breaks down), and therefore consumers are willing to hold on to their existing vehicles and wait out economic slumps. You can’t do that with, say, a loaf of bread, or even something like a cellphone, which has a much shorter lifespan. (via FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: GM’s Problems are 50 Years in the Making)
This pretty much nails it.
A good article on the possibilities of Samsung joining the EV race. Have a few billion in cash, a legion of engineers, will do big business opportunities.
