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Article: The inside job has barely begun
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 19, 1996
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Car design is going through something of a renaissance. Instead
of endless me-too tin boxes shaped like slippery bars of soap -
which the car industry has been relentlessly serving up for the
past decade or so - we have recently seen some novel shapes. Fiat,
Alfa, Audi, BMW, Renault and, to a lesser extent, Rover, have all
proven that there are still some original thinkers studded through
the motor industry styling studios.
What a pity, then, that their design creativity seems largely to
have been confined to the outside of cars. Or rather, that while
the new Renaissance men are let loose on exteriors, the B-graders
(last job: Polish housing estates in the Seventies) are still in
charge of ...