Mopardan Member Username: Mopardan
Post Number: 225 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 12:07 am: | |
Another AllPar feature which includes photos. http://www.allpar.com/corporat e/factories/sterling-heights.h tml There's a chart that alludes to building Fiats & & Fiat-based Chryslers. |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 2026 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 2:24 pm: | |
Cool pics! I spent many a years working in the field of Manufacturing Engineering. Too bad the latest vehicle built at SHAP looks like a dung beetle. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9534 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 2:54 pm: | |
What looks like a Dung Beetle? The Avenger? |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 2027 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 2:56 pm: | |
Whichever the 4 door version is. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9535 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 3:05 pm: | |
It says they build the Avenger and Sebring there, neither of them seem that ugly to me these days. Now the last model of the Concorde, yeesh. So glad we're past the jellybean era of cars. |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 2028 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 3:13 pm: | |
I think you can credit the more squared off fronts of cars on new models with the anticipated arrival of pedestrian impact standards. Myself, I always thought a major blow to vehicle styling was the introduction of rectangular headlamps in the 70s. Once you had those, you had to make everything else a right angle to match. The russet potato look of the '83 T Bird was pretty bad too. All cars had the same silhouette afterwards. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9538 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 3:28 pm: | |
The '83 T Bird, ouch.
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Mopardan Member Username: Mopardan
Post Number: 231 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 4:09 pm: | |
Oh yeah, the aero look! Check out this site for Mopar fuselage styling. http://www.fuselage.de/ Glad y'all liked the article. I usually check AllPar several times a week for nuggets like this. |
Otter Member Username: Otter
Post Number: 654 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 8:22 am: | |
I think Cambrian is referring to the 4DS Sebring in particular. Never thought of it that way Also, LOL @ the "russet potato" description of the T-bird. I spent a bit of time at SHAP in my few years at Chrysler and found it...special. most people I knew who'd spent time there (I worked in quality) thought it should be burned to the ground and the earth salted, or something like that. O. |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 2030 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 8:32 am: | |
I spent the fall of '95 working with the Quality department as a consultant at Toledo Jeep Assembly plant. I recall lots of turmoil there. At the plant the production schedule is king, any one wanting to interrupt the staus quo with dumb quality questions wore a scarlett letter. |
Mopardan Member Username: Mopardan
Post Number: 233 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 9:41 am: | |
"Myself, I always thought a major blow to vehicle styling was the introduction of rectangular headlamps in the 70s. Once you had those, you had to make everything else a right angle to match." ================================================ The car that made Richard Petty leave Chrysler. Looks like some kid found a brick & painted it.
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