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“FAST-FORWARD TO TODAY AND WE CONSTANTLY HEAR PEOPLE LAMENT THAT ALL MODERN CARS LOOK THE SAME. WHAT HAPPENED?”

AS A SPECIES, we distinguish ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom by our capacity for reason and complex problem-solving. We can program our thinking to be robotically rational and analytical, achieving optimal results by separating logic from emotion.

But we are also sensual reason: “A good style must have an air of novelty,” he scribed circa 350BC, pre-empting the vagaries of car design by a mere two millennia.

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