you can tell someone ...

... by the car she drives.

Here's the I.D. Magazine Top 40 Designers' cars (I.D. Magazine, Feb.
1997):

Jeep Grand Cherokee
Toyota 4-Runner
Range Rover, Corvette, M-B, Pinzgauer (armored personnel vehicle)
M-B
Lexus (this is Frank Gehry!)
Pacer
Land Rover
Schwinn bicycle
Volvo
Lincoln Continental
Jaguar Mk II
Alfa-Romeo Spider
Volvo 850 wagon
Ford Aerostar
VW convertible
Ford Explorer
Isuzo Trooper
Honda Civic SI
M-B
Volvo wagon
Range Rover, BMW 850
Volvo
Saap 95
Volvo
Volvo
VW bus
Jeep Cherokee
Mazda Miata
M-B SL320
Mustang convertible (1966)
Nissan Sentra
Ford Galaxie 500 (1964)
Nissan 200SX
Saab
Jaguar XJ-6

Remember, this is the West Coast Top 40.

I asked a colleague, who is black, why he thought the main character in
Spike Lee's recent film "Crooklyn" - a young drug dealer - drove a black
Honda Accord, of all cars. He thought it was because the Accord was the
most "invisible" car. (It's also the most stolen.)

What do people on design-l drive?

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Michael Kaplan
Professor of Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
mkaplan@xxxxxxx
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