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Car glove boxes. So just what have they been designed to store in the decades since we have dispensed with string-back leather hand coverings? I’ve gone through several generations of vehicle over the years and none of them have had glove boxes that have a shape that corresponds to an assortment of accoutrements of the time be it tinned sweets, bottle of Cresta, cassette tapes, CDs, Road map, removable sat nav, baby wipes, Nurofen...
there is always one thing that’s the wrong shape to get in even when 40% of the ridiculously convoluted space is unoccupied.
Likewise with door pockets. Just deep enough to hold an item until said item is imbued, by the movement of the door, with enough angular momentum to overcome its centre of gravity and flip over and out into a muddy puddle.
So, car designers, get your act together. Stop spending all your time and budget adding yet another pointless (pun intended) angular facet to the bodywork in an attempt to make vehicles look like the spawn of the god of origami and get the basics right.