Marketing is an inexact science, if it is a science at all. To qualify as ‘scientfic’, the result of any experiment must be reproducible. If this held in the car world, then no manufacturer would ever experience a flop because whatever determined a sales success in the past could be reproduced in future. Factor in the vagaries of public taste, where the only certainty is that things change, and you enter the peculiar chaos of car design.
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