By Christopher A. Sawyer
The Virtual Driver
(June 20, 2018) In July 1990, Car Magazine ran a cover showing the front ends of various European cars with the headline: “Euro-car Clones: Who’ll Put a Stop to Dead-end Design?” It was a provocative question, one that took eight pages to answer, but its ultimate result was to give mankind the fish-mouth Ford Scorpio and oval grilles on every Ford that followed. Variety is, as the saying goes, the spice of life, but for all of the perceived variety in the auto industry, it is a business very much steeped in Group Think.