PSA: Bono wants cars to bring sexy back

No, really. If you didn't know, U2's front man and Africa activist Bono is a regular columnist at The New York Times. And he (too) has a top 10 list to kick off the new decade we now find ourselves living in. Bono first smartly apologizes for burdening our collective eyes and minds with yet another such list, before then presenting his.

Items found on his list include: a cap and trade system taxing every individual's right to pollute, protecting the intellectual rights of movie and television studios, a rock star teleportation scientist and eradicating rotavirus. All good and/or interesting stuff, no doubt, if not a little, um, predictable. Which may very well be why Bono stuck his car-related concern up on they very top of his list. That concern? "Return of the Automobile GPS Navigator Object."

In short, Bono believes that a modern four-door sedan is a lame-looking, and sigh, light trucks and SUV's situation is very common (and boring). His meditation on the sexy family car down the design in the U.S. auto industry heyday, about 1946 to about 1971, created. Where the curve, he asked, on the ground, said: "Ireland in the seventies, which is E-type Jaguar, making sense of adolescence." A line, we should add that we will be stolen.

Bono followed by the Commission's inspiration, and modern vehicle design problem may be "design practice," he pointed out that "majority rule is rarely produce beautiful things." We are working with him so far, but he got a little stupid. In essence, Bono said that since the Obama administration is "still holds the key to major car manufacturers," they should be mixed into a number of "fascist." In these mentioned Marc Newson, Steve Jobe Sri Lanka and Qiaoniyifu, Frank Gehry and Jeff Koons. Fortunately, we already have some idea, last year a little bit of insider knowledge. To make a slight jump NSWF explain why I believe that Bono is wrong.

[Source: The New York Times | Photo: Wei Lianxi / AFP / Getty]


A few years ago, Nissan is good enough to lend me a second-generation cubic dermatomyositis. Right-hand drive everything is Autoblog's Alex Nunez review of the same car parking sensor.. As a particular car is so different than the design more than any other person on the street - including the then less than on the current cube - I decided to pack in the city frog design artists and architects of some friends and my choice of mystery and exotic square cube in their brains.

In the funky Nissan, the immediate dismissal and / or as a "Hello Kitty Pinzgauer embrace." They appreciate the cubic square, and like the overall theme is how to play in a square and all walks of life (the wheel of the square hole in the instrument decorative plates square cross-boundary, etc.). In particular, they like the hard, terrycloth seat. But in fact, their most important complaint, although the cube design features a very high level, it is not enough. And Bono, they suggested that the U.S. artist Jeff Koons should design a car.

Sadly, a few years my memory dilution, and a nasty virus has audio files from the day of extinction. Here is what I do not remember: According to the creative talent, rather than the steering wheel, Coons will use the jelly penis, the rest will be white actor in the Mainland. Some toy gun some type of "Bang!" Signs will serve as a headlight or is likely to turn lights and cars will be painted with the amber - no color, sap. However, the play is not taillights, the car and reverse parking sensors will have a large honeycomb hanging off the back, when you go to the brake pedal, a robotic arm with a baseball bat to play in the hive, bees swarming to attack cars behind them. No, really.

I am looking through the line for this did not impede innovation and "sexy" car design, but rather emphasizes the potential failures and Bono of the intellectual error.