Shortwave Sportfishing wrote in message
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:28:10 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:41:55 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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By contrast, spend some time looking over a Toyota, imagining how you'd
access various things for repair. They're brilliantly thought out.

Exactly - because you have to fix them all the time.

That's not engineering brilliance - that's common sense. :)

NOTE: For the record, we once owned a Volvo that was so over
engineered, to change the warning/signal flasher, you had to remove
the dashboard to get to it.

And, wasn't it one of the Firebirds or Camaros that required loosening an
engine mount and lifting the motor a few inches to access at least one of
the spark plugs? Back in the late 1970s, IIRC.

Cadillac actually - both rear cylinders - had to detach the engine
from the tranny.

That was just plain stupid.

Many cars today require pulling or partially pulling the engine to change
the spark plugs.

It sounds stupid to us old farts until you realize that the spark plugs
don't have to be changed until 100,000 miles or more.

Eisboch