"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in
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"RichA" wrote in message
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I refer to this as the Japanese car design disease. Lack of any
angularity. It plagues most middle-class cars on the road.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=40899162


Most cars, cameras and other mass produced items are pressed or
moulded. In order be able to get the pressing or moulding out of the
machine it needs to taper and have smoothed corners. You can make
shells by machining or folding, but the results are expensive or poor
respectively.




And they can do angles but they've devolved to the 1950's again.