Auto Design is an Art Form that reflects public taste and culture →

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Ok, sure, automobiles were created to drive you to a destination. They are the products of an industrialized world that makes a profit out of creating things and more profit out of replacing these machines.

O yes, the design value has aesthetic appeal but some just think it is a tool for the planned need to change as design goes out of style.

The important truth here is that design that comes to us because it was commissioned for functional purposes does not mean that the design isn’t art. Functionality does not disqualfy art.

Cars and art share something that very few other things do. Their design comes largely from the soul of their creators and in then the finished product speaks to our souls.

These creations of hands and intellect become things that are not alive, but yet they serve to remind us that we are.

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Should life goals include the desire to be famous? →

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Do we all want to live in a community where everybody knows your name? Is the desire to be famous a healthy desire? Does the desire change, or just evolve into different related goals.

Young men in the 1950's and 60's had their taste of the desire to be famous validated by the automobile they drove. The right car sent the right message of fame and the driver was of course famous because of the car.

The GTO (which stood for Gran Turismo Omologato) was a car that sent the right message. In today's world you would say it was the G.O.A.T. - Greatest Of All Time.

The message created by the right car was bigger than just the car, it was a feeling and a pronouncement. When you owned or even stepped into the car you changed. You became something you weren’t before. You sat in the seat a little more erect, and your gestures became very important. You were famous, at least in your own mind.