Now, we don’t mean they all had wheels that were round. No, the pattern on the wheels was largely identical. Can’t imagine that happening today.

While you’re pondering over that one, here are 30 examples of automotive styling trends adopted (and sometimes, but not always, later dropped) by designers over more than a century of motoring.

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