My all time favorite was the fact that one had to buy a special tool in order to change the oil in a VW beetle. This tool was an 1-1/8 inch (nearest English size) Allen wrench. Now American cars only required the use of a cresent wrench to remove the drain plug. For some reason this was too mundane for VW engineers. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john stockdale Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:54 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Chromatic Aberration of Enlarging Lenses At 09:34 AM 28/04/2006, Ralph wrote: ........ >Another example is a newer model-year VW's instrument panel (dash >board). The designers decided to use blue and red together in the >displays. The two colors are at the opposite extremes of the visual >spectrum. Hard to focus on both. IMHO, that's an ergonomic faux-pas by >VW. > >Regards >Ralph W. Lambrecht So, they continue their recent tradition of idiotic ergonomic faux-pas. I love their mechanical engineering, but my Golf GTi will be my last VW for that reason (multiple ergonomic problems). ======================================================================== ===================================== To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.