[V8] Machine Gun bunker

[Greg Furstenwerth]

I have never heard a TT compared to a vacuum cleaner before I am 
laughing so hard right now. Great comment thanks for the laugh Roger :)

Roger M. Woodbury wrote:

>Lessee.  The perfect machine gun bunker would provide protection from hand
>thrown or otherwise propelled rocket grenades from above...a roof, in other
>words.  It would also need to offer the least potential for the gun crew to
>receive direct fire from in front or sides or rear, hence very low, narrow
>gun port or view port for fire direction.
>
>In other words, the current state of automotive design, especially what we
>are seeing from VW/Audi and for that matter most of the other car
>manufacturers.  Low roof lines, bulbous or slab sided bodies relatively
>narrow windows from all angles.  Take the Audi TT, for example.  Yes, PLEASE
>take the Audi TT.  As I have likened it before, it remains a 1950's Hoover
>vacuum cleaner without the bag or wand....or if you prefer, a rather cramped
>machine gun bunker.
>
>I was looking forward to seeing the Audi Shooting Brake concept.  Pictures
>are visible at the sites for the Tokyo Auto Show.  
>
>Another purely ugly tour de force, unfortunately.  
>
>I think the V8 remains one of the most enduring designs...too conservative
>to be a big seller when it was in its model run, but my!  How well the
>design seems to have aged.  
>
>Even Daimler/Chrysler agrees!  What does the Chrysler 300 sedan look like to
>you?  Why, a poor copy, obviously.  And the original Taurus wagons looked
>like...well, a poor cousin of the Audi Avant.
>
>Now, all the manufacturers can seem to give us is mobile fighting
>positions...and ugly ones at that!
>
>Roger
>
>
>Feeling grumpy because of the chilly rain from Wilma.  (Never liked that
>name, either).
>
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