Responding to the needs of a fatter America, an American carmaker is making its computer models, fatter, to make room for a bigger driver.
From airplanes to the shopping lane, the widening waistline of America has meant some readjusting.
Redesigning now, to make room for American girth, the American car.
Eero Laansoo/Ford Motor Co. Engineer: "It presents an interesting design opportunity."
Ford has developed nine virtual mannequins for its cyber model 2007. They're chunkier, so engineers can ergonomically allow for a bigger belly and wider hips. An industry first, but probably not the last. With one in 3 Americans obese, fat is a national epidemic.
Engineers say if Americans don't change, then the world must change for them.
read more HERE
So when you go to Ford to buy a car, Do you ask for an Xtra Large? Do we really need more Xtra Large Cars?
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Ford Makes Fatter Cars
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, Aug 19 2006 05:35 AM
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 05:35 AM
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 05:39 AM
hey, i'm gettin' a ford, baby 
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 05:41 AM
m.oreilly, on Aug 18 2006, 10:39 PM, said:
hey, i'm gettin' a ford, baby
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 06:34 AM
Nvyseal, on Aug 18 2006, 10:41 PM, said:
LOL!! you fat monkey!
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 12:12 PM
thats really bad with the whole making cars bigger 
shows that people need to exercise instead of making thier cars bigger
shows that people need to exercise instead of making thier cars bigger
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Posted 21 August 2006 - 12:33 PM
This is sad. It's yet more proof that the people in the world today are eating all the wrong foods and not exercising enough
My sister is ... um ... large and she always says "I'm on a diet blah blah blah" and the first thing she does is have junk food. Typical of a lot of peoples attitude today really.
My sister is ... um ... large and she always says "I'm on a diet blah blah blah" and the first thing she does is have junk food. Typical of a lot of peoples attitude today really.
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Posted 29 August 2006 - 10:58 PM
I just dont understand how people can let themselfs get so big. would you wake up one day and go HOLY $%*# im fat, maybe stop eating so much. Im not saying you have to be thin and jacked but dont you think it would be nice to see your own toes? 
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 05:59 AM
Scuba, on Aug 29 2006, 03:58 PM, said:
...dont you think it would be nice to see your own toes?
well times and "builds" are changing...
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