The car industry has just gone through a seismic shift from petrol to electric engines. It’s still not enough to make cars sustainable. Now it’s time to look at their raw materials.
Cars are like time machines. Maybe not literally like the DeLorean from Back to the Future, but in the sense that their designs reflect the times in which they were created.
How cars look and how they’re built offer a window into what is going on in society at that particular moment in time. Indeed, it was legendary motoring mogul Lee Iacocca, the man behind the Ford Mustang and who was credited with saving Chrysler in the 1950’s, who said:
“The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.”
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