Yet in this regard, automobile design remains curiously unresolved.

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Mr. MEYERS: Automobile design is a fashion industry.

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The design of an automobile assembly line came from a Henry Ford associate who had visited a Chicago slaughterhouse.

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In the particular case, a family involved in a deadly automobile accident claimed that a tire design flaw caused the tragedy.

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If we take, for instance, the automobile industry, we see their design centers or their engineering centers coming to work in Mexico, using Mexican engineers, using Mexican technicians.

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In 1997, Nuccio Bertone, one of the automobile world's great mentors and the doyen of Italian design, died.

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They share a fetal, larval quality, and that characterisation is not just conceptual, but a reflection of a new paradigm of the automobile that's still struggling to be born, as a design historian Phil Patton put it.

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And yet, overall, the M6's design adds up: This is one big, sleek, prepossessing automobile, very mature and epically cool.

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