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tekdemon @ Apr 20th 2008 8:48PM
I'm pretty sure it's all marketing silliness to call it a Tiananmen square shaped grille...seeing as how that really just makes it a squarish rectangle.
In that vein, from now on all the wheels on my car are going to be referred to as being shaped like Picadilly Circus.
Anyways, that interior has to go...you can't aim to sell a V12 luxury SUV with that interior...way too faux-futuristic Star Trek. And WAY too much plastic everywhere.
BTW, while Tiananmen may have negative connotations in the west, in China it's a positive thing. There's no really good analogy but I'd say it's kinda like the White House-even if it was burned down during a war, it's still the White House. Ok, horrible analogy.
HotRodzNKustoms @ Apr 20th 2008 10:19PM
Being proud of Tienanmen Square is like being proud of the Holocaust or being proud of 9/11. In my own opinion, but that's just me
tekdemon @ Apr 21st 2008 11:36AM
That's just because you don't feel connected to the 600 years of history connected to the place. You just think of it as some place where people were protesting in 1989. In reality most of the ensuing violence and whatnot didn't even happen in Tiananmen itself, but the streets near it.
Historically it's also been the site of a brutal French and British invasion of China, amongst other things.
But the reason why the Chinese would think of it positively is because it's still the gate (the name Tiananmen means Gate to Heaven) that opens into the Forbidden City, where the great emperors ruled China.
Thinking of Tiananmen as only the 1989 protests is like thinking of the United States only as invaders of Iraq.