Silver Fox
Totally Hooked
- May 7, 2022
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Yes comrades, it's time for one of my substance-induced*, rambling contributions for you to cheerfully ignore.
The Toyota GR86 is like the film Oppenheimer, and here's why.
1. Both are examples of how individual high quality elements can be combined by skilled creators to produce an outstanding, homogeneous whole.
2. Both require engagement and some degree of effort to get the best out of them, with the rewards for doing so absolutely worthwhile.
3. Both are not trying to please everyone.
4. Both will reveal more and more to you with repeated exposure.
5. Both hark back to an earlier time and the way things used to be made.
6. Both are reliant on an organic, natural, analogue approach whilst eschewing digital, synthetic ways of doing things.
7. Both have the feel of being the product of a singular, focused vision, eschewing the compromises of a committee approach.
To take this analogy a little further, all these modern hot hatches with their auto gearboxes and proliferation of driver aids are like Marvel superheroes films. Initially impressive (for some°), but after the instant sugar rush hit offering not much else; overreliance on technology; requiring very little from the 'audience'; designed to appeal to as many people as possible; unnecessarily noisy; created by committee with a focus on compromise; generally very predictable and unimaginative; and pretty much indistinguishable from each other.
GR86: *****
Oppenheimer: *****
*Coffee, and dark chocolate and orange cookies
°Not for me I think they're bollocks
The Toyota GR86 is like the film Oppenheimer, and here's why.
1. Both are examples of how individual high quality elements can be combined by skilled creators to produce an outstanding, homogeneous whole.
2. Both require engagement and some degree of effort to get the best out of them, with the rewards for doing so absolutely worthwhile.
3. Both are not trying to please everyone.
4. Both will reveal more and more to you with repeated exposure.
5. Both hark back to an earlier time and the way things used to be made.
6. Both are reliant on an organic, natural, analogue approach whilst eschewing digital, synthetic ways of doing things.
7. Both have the feel of being the product of a singular, focused vision, eschewing the compromises of a committee approach.
To take this analogy a little further, all these modern hot hatches with their auto gearboxes and proliferation of driver aids are like Marvel superheroes films. Initially impressive (for some°), but after the instant sugar rush hit offering not much else; overreliance on technology; requiring very little from the 'audience'; designed to appeal to as many people as possible; unnecessarily noisy; created by committee with a focus on compromise; generally very predictable and unimaginative; and pretty much indistinguishable from each other.
GR86: *****
Oppenheimer: *****
*Coffee, and dark chocolate and orange cookies
°Not for me I think they're bollocks
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