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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out.
I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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It's called retro, popular everywhere except in IT
This guy nailed it though 
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I was going to say the same thing, more or less.
The fan speed on my laptop went way up when the page loaded. A lot going on there. 
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More common sense then genius. Advertising and all that goes with that, is what that site is all about.
Keep your UI/UIX books, they are still relevant.
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In the US there is (was?) a newspaper for the theater trade called VARIETY.
There's an old saw about what actors, etc., felt: "I don't care what you write about me, as long as you spell my name correctly."
Fit's perfectly - who'd ever want to bother looking at the site? Now it's forwarded all over the world because of look - and isn't that the point - traffic and name recognition? !
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Well, it stands out by being as gimmicky as possible, so it seems like that's working for them.
On the other hand, I'd have to surrender my programmer license and take up goat farming if I'd written that site! According to Chrome Dev Tools, it took 13.3 seconds to fully load, and DOMContentLoaded didn't fire until the 5 second mark.
It also appears to animate some parts of the page by continually downloading video from the server. Right now, I'm up to 841 requests and 28.7MB transferred. I suspect that the page size is theoretically infinite, since it never appears to stop downloading. Let's hope nobody who has a transfer cap accidentally leaves this site running in a background tab.
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I remember this place when it first opened. It's located in the North East of England, and its site attracted a lot of hilarity here. I guess they have the last laugh.
This space for rent
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Yeah, I saw her on The Dragon's Den (called "Shark Tank" in America I think). That's just her advertising "style", to grab attention at all costs and hope people shop. Not sure if it works or not TBH, I suppose it does on some people but she'll undoubtedly lose others.
That style of site is still popular in some Asian countries though. I worked on a global platform once and all the countries had much the same layout and colours so it wasn't a big deal to migrate them all to the same platform, apart from either Thailand or Malaysia, I forget which....but it looked just like Ling Cars and that's how they wanted it to stay.
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Yea, they started out up the back end of birtley.
Dunno if thier still there, but they poached half the dev team from tombola when i was there in 2010;
I think theyve moved premesis now though, somewhere over washington way.
Shawty
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Did you do a "view source"?
Awesome.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That is totally bad ass
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Just did that before reading your comment - some real skill there.. I particularly liked the javascript at the bottom:
And no table layouts! Yay! 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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This shows up in the JS also:
"If you die, you don't get your seat ticket refunded, and in the same way you won't get your new car refunded.|;|But, dying can be great, because the car contract will stop immediately and your car will go back to the finance provider.|;|This means that your loved ones, if anyone loves you, won't be left to pick up the cost of the car."
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I vote genius! It's an ad site, intended to get people's attention and stick out in their memory.
Someone put a lot of work into the humor. This gem is in the JS code, too:
Ling aims to do everything right, first time. She punishes herself and staff for making mistakes, so they happen very rarely.|;|Ling always complies with the Human Rights Act (Chinese rules), but it's usually her staff who get shot, not her customers.
vuolsi così colà dove si puote
ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare
--The answer to Minos and any question of "Why are we doing it this way?"
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Do we expect to see your ASCII face appearing in the CP soon then?
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I found this gem:
<div id="fear-free-cars">
<a href="/christine.php">
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Well, it's not iPad friendly. It crashed the Safari browser. 
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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O M G!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I vote awful. It honestly doesn't take the latest technology or even a lot of effort or programming chops to come up with something more modern looking.
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And how many people send the modern looking sites viral?
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Just because it's "viral" doesn't mean it's "good".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's a good site if it brings them more business.
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Does mean it's successful, though.
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