- Posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Photo of the Day: EFIJY Concept
Holden’s EFIJY concept car as seen at the GM display at Athens Coney Island during the 2007 Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise.
Today’s photo comes from Bill Strong.
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One Comment
Edward Hayes
Some people look at this car and see the past.
I look at this car and see the future.
Once GM gets its confidence back, once GM gets its groove back, once Buick is back,
Once we get a clue,
Then we will be seeing cars like this on the road again.
Consumer tastes don’t change as quickly as we think and tastes evolve only to return from where they started.
And the bottom line is no I don’t think bell bottoms will come back but the most modern designs today have the simplistic nature of the early 70’s. And I will take bell bottoms over a lot of the baggy pants and boxer short showing attire of today.
Heck give me leg warmers.
At the same time the dress suit is still the #1 unchanging stylistic stand by.
And this is what the EFIJY design is. It is the Rolls Royce, the American-Australian Bentley. It is at once Holden and Buick heritage at its finest.
And 100 years from now the beautiful suit will largely look the same I am sure. The car if it keeps evolving from cars like the EFIJY to the Cimeron then I think the car will disappear if it continues to evolve like that. At least the American car will anyway.
But if Buick finds its soul as the fine suit of automotive design I don’t care how the automotive design world evolves Buick will be there. And there will be fine suits everywhere to meet her tomorrow I am sure.
And a million years from now the Grand Canyon will still be beautiful. And in that time if they dig us up today, they will say the same thing. Pity the paltry saloons but some did know how to live back in that day. They must have been the pharos and kings of their day.
No just humble folk with better taste than many. And what we drove just looked expensive.
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