007's car outdrives iPhone in battle of the brands The annual CoolBrands survey has returned this year, and Apple has again failed to claw back the top spot that its much coveted iPhone held just a couple of years before. The CoolBrands survey, which delineates the most desirable consumer brands, has once again declared Aston Martin is this year's coolest brand, keeping the …
<The scene: Two figures are fleeing from the towering HQ of an evil conglomerate. Several machine-gun carrying are chasing them>
"James, they're chasing us! How are we going to get away?"
"Don't worry, my dear. I'll use my iPad to plot an escape route in Maps that will take us to the nearest bus stop."
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Who in their right mind put the iphone at No.2?
It shouldn't even be in the list!
When will people learn iPhone is dead, its not desirable to be seen as illiterate! And be under no illusion, that is exactely what people will think of you if your seen with an iPhone.
Hello Day old news. Cancel the iPhone subcription. There business is going to Behind the times!
Aston Martin - for sure..
but who the hell votes Harley Davidson in as cool?
Most of the Harley riders I know are old farts with armchair bikes. Personally I think the Victory's are a much better American cruiser, but not many people have heard of them.
The one Harley bike that most non-biking people think of that looks cool, i.e. the V-Rod - is seen within Harley purist circles as not being a Harley at all as the engine was developed by Porsche and doesn't need a re-build every 10k miles :P
Looks cool, sounds cool, handles like a ... well, they don't call 'em 'hogs' for nothing. Great tourer if you live in Utah: only encounter a bend in the road every 200 miles and can't legally travel over 55mph. Oh, and don't ever, ever drop it - unless you're travelling with a team of body-builders.
Number 3? What were they thinking?!
Harley Davidson holds about as much cachet as Massey Fergusson... It's a bloody tractor on two wheels! Ducati, MV Agusta, Moto Guzzi, Triumph - all cooler bikes than Harleys. To be honest, I think the Big 4 Japanese manufacturers would be in there as well if they weren't so damned reliable.
I suppose HD are cool because of all the people lounging outside fashionable cafes and bars with them (whilst waiting for the recovery truck).
...is just like the DB9 - looks cool, has design flaws. A major DB9 design flaw is battery useage + the fact that it's under the boot and the charger socket is in the boot. So if it goes flat, you can't open the boot (there is no manual override for the central locking - well, there is but it's in the boot in case you're very small and get locked in).
The DB9 does make a nice noise and go fast - unlike the iPhone 4.
got a harley sportster (and owned harleys for the last 20 years) and its 1957 technology dont you know. Although now technicaly middle aged, not bald and have never been in a golf club, I must be doing something wrong....
All bikes are cool, Harley just have a brand image among non-bikers that other brands would kill for.
Shame no sign of triumph though, my S3 is arguably a better bike 99% of the time.
What's first on my list of unnecessary luxury goods? iPhone or a classic Aston Martin DB4? One is as common and ubiquitous as a bic biro and the other rarer than hen's teeth -- with real value.
NO CONTEST!
Of course Aston is top of the list! And in other news, bears shit in the woods and water is wet.
While the latest generation of Aston's don't float my boat many a past model means that Aston will always be cool, even if they do re-badge a Toyota.
A 90's Virage Vantage (especially the V600), sit in the middle of your own personal earthquake. Don't bother actually moving anywhere, just make the world move around under you.
But back to the DB4. The DB4 isn't that rare, of course there are DB4s and DB4s, they came in 5 main series. But then you have the DB4GT and for real rarity there is always the Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato of which I think there are only 19. You'd need a big lottery win to move one out of your dream garage. Now what will tonight's numbers be?
(actually I'd prefer a standard road going DB4GT, most have been sworn of their bumpers and taken on the track going form)
Cool is very subjective and it is interesting that the top 2 are existing technology made stylish. The Aston is Ford technology with the V12 engine been 2 mondeo V6's, V8 from Jaguar (from their ford days) and pretty much everything else under the skin. The skill was to take this technology and produce something jaw droppingly beautiful, smile inducingly fast, and a sound that makes tunnels a neccessity. Basically it manages to appeal to every sense. The worry for them been where the next new generation of cars will come from as they have just been launching repackaged versions of the existing vehicles recently.
Whatever we think about Apple they do a really good job of taking products that exist, i.e. the smartphone and recreate them into something that is stylish, easy to use and desirable. Personally I would never want one due to the control applied by apple but I can see the allure and I am greatfull that they drove the market into producing great alternatives.
These products appeal to our basic desire to want something lovely in our lives that makes us smile.
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