Expect styling to come to the fore, as vehicle design is less influenced by safety considerations like visibility, window placement, strength and stiffness of materials, bumpers, crumple zones, collapsible steering columns, air bags, seat belts, and padding.

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It makes sense since both industries have such large footprints, requiring large amounts of materials and supplies, creating business for realtors, lenders, lumber, cement, and window producers, plumbing, electrical fixture and paint suppliers, furniture and fabric manufacturers, attorneys, TV and print advertising, to name but a few.

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