Sunday, April 05, 2015
Bubble, squash
While I was waiting for the bus yesterday, a '66 Sedan de Ville floated by. Cars and trucks of that vintage are fairly common in low-rust Spokane, but a Caddy is a rarity. What made it salient was its silence and stability. It wasn't forcing its attention on every sense; it was creating a bubble of calm and stillness.
Here's a similar Caddy along with the cheapest GM car of '66, a Chevy II stripper.
List prices: Caddy 5500, Chevy II 2028.
The Caddy cost 2.7 times as much as the Chevy II.
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Now here's the 2015 equivalent, I think. Escalade vs Chevy Sonic. (I'm not familiar with new cars, so the low end choice could be wrong.)
Note the HEIGHT and the hyperaggressive alien mutant faces. These are pedestrian-squashers.
List prices: Escalade 73k, Sonic 14k.
Caddy costs 5.2 times as much as the Chevy.
The modern ratio of rich to poor among GM products is nearly twice the 1966 ratio.
Gilded Age 2. Nuff said.
List prices: Caddy 5500, Chevy II 2028.
The Caddy cost 2.7 times as much as the Chevy II.
= = = = =
Now here's the 2015 equivalent, I think. Escalade vs Chevy Sonic. (I'm not familiar with new cars, so the low end choice could be wrong.)
Note the HEIGHT and the hyperaggressive alien mutant faces. These are pedestrian-squashers.
List prices: Escalade 73k, Sonic 14k.
Caddy costs 5.2 times as much as the Chevy.
The modern ratio of rich to poor among GM products is nearly twice the 1966 ratio.
Gilded Age 2. Nuff said.
Labels: Old Economy Steve, STRONG!
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