The Future of Car Design
August 16, 2008 | Levent OZLER
John Reed, motor industry correspondent, explores car design since Henry Ford's Model T, 100 years old this year, and looks at today's wilder visions for the cars of the future, as oil prices stay high and economic times darken.
He shows how cars have embodied our hopes and dreams. In the jet age, cars were built to look like planes. In the 1970s oil shocks catapulted functional but efficient Japanese cars to bestselling spots.
Looking to the future, John Reed reveals the wilder visions of car designers.
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