[HN Gopher] Strap Rail
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       Strap Rail
        
       Author : juliangamble
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-11-06 20:14 UTC (9 days ago)
        
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       | inshard wrote:
       | US has a culture of scaling. Having lived in London and many
       | parts of the US, I could observe that Europe has economies of
       | scope. And the US has economies of scale. A good example would be
       | the Ford F150 and the Range Rover. One is highly reliable, built
       | to capture the core value of a Utility vehicle, as cheaply, and
       | as numerously as possible. The other tries to be the best
       | possible version of an SUV. It's not that the F150 is playing to
       | the mass market. It's just the maximum features, that doesn't
       | compromise scale. Many other examples like Southwest Airlines,
       | McDonalds, manhattan's skyline, Arm and Hammer, US highways, US
       | Domestic Airports, Nike Vemeros, CVS, US Healthcare Triage and
       | Emergency Services. It's just less fancy, more accessible wealth
       | creation.
        
         | axiolite wrote:
         | > the Range Rover [...] tries to be the best possible version
         | of an SUV.
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         | "And this is kind of realistic for Range Rover ownership
         | because when you have one of these, they're so unreliable that
         | you have to have a second vehicle."
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         | https://youtu.be/wQEmsW3voas?si=BuEeZ4CVOocLI_hy&t=418
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         | "you really have to be a little bit crazy to buy one of these"
         | 
         | https://youtu.be/wQEmsW3voas?si=FXP9vGdS5Xg-pG0p&t=2011
        
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