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Inside Line
brings us news of a designer’s panel that took place in Detroit on Wednesday, featuring notables like Chrysler
Group vice president of Jeep, truck and component design Ralph Gilles. Mr. 300 and others lamented about the horrors of
going retro, while Ford North American Car director of design Pat Schiavone remarked upon the
idea that “heritage,” not necessarily retro, is of importance to American car manufacturers.
Designers also gave something of a vocabulary lesson during the panel. Apparently in designer slang, a vehicle that
is awful despite a beautiful presentation is “craptastic.”
[Source: Inside Line]