Why Honda is struggling :D

Hi,

I just had to share this! Affidavits and aluminum hats getting a little tiring - Before I give you the link, "they" call this writer "an equal opportunity abuser". Anyway, on Honda he had this to say:

"Over the years Honda has tried and tried to give itself a youthful appeal. It has injected its cars with Botox, collagen and testosterone. It has even slotted 190bhp engines under the bonnet of a Civic, but this was like fitting a spoiler to a plastic hip. All it did was increase the speed the old lady was going when she hit the tree"

On the States:

"In America everyone wants to be a part of the great outdoors. They like the idea of cutting down trees and shooting critters in the spine. Even the most sockless preppy from Georgetown DC is able and willing to slip out of his loafers at a moment’s notice and into a hairy shirt for a weekend under canvas in the woods. What’s more, in America everyone wants to be a factory worker. They seem to find manual labour and engineer boots rather noble. Bruce Springsteen has more money than God but unlike Britain’s rock gods, who wear tweed and Armani, he dresses like he’s spent all day up a telegraph pole. Only in America could there have been a song called Wichita Lineman. An ode to a man who spends all day long driving around a useless state, in a pick-up truck, looking for broken telephone wires"

You get the idea - He also comments on China, the Pac Rim and many others - On Alfa Romeo he had this to say:

"In essence, then, Alfa has always understood what makes driving a thrill. But it has never been able to make a car. Well, not a car that a rational, normal human being might want to buy.Think of them as underground German art films. Great for serious-minded critics but not quite in the same everyman league as Bruce 'BMW' Willis on an asteroid"

Enjoy!
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article2047749.ece