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My partner's theory is that car design reflects the popular politics of the time - hence the current cyber-military design phase as we hurtle into some kind of global conflict with Russia or China.
For her, the bubbly 2003 Nissan Mirca is the ultimate 'end of history' pre-financial crash New Labour car.
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Hard agree.
Everything looks like a snarling Predator straining to take a shit, especially the hyper-aggressive BMW/Merc/Audi hatchbacks with mutant M/AMG/S-line factory bodykits. It’s the primal, anthropomorphised expression of capitalism.
I’m especially irked by the trend of sticking giant gaping scoops on the sides of bumpers, like a cross between a Group B rally car and a teenage mutant ninja turtle, only to cover the actual ‘air intake’ folly with a solid unvented ‘grille’ to reduce the aerodynamic impact. This, on everything, including the most mundane shopping trolley motors and fucking builders vans.