In the design process on my car I came to the realization that their is little that isnt borrowed, tweaked, or straight copied anymore. After months of trying what I thought were new ideas, each time I was shown how it looked like this or that model.
So I just stopped trying.

After all, without copy and improvements based upon a previous design, we'd all be driving model T's still. Right?
I think a blending of ideas, shapes and forms is a good way to evolve something.
I think though even to the untrained eye, a holden hurricane is still not a sterling, and vice versa. I think both are gorgeous cars.
The lifting canopy while startling, and very exotic, isn't the most practical method of entry, and exit for a vehicle. But thats what exotics are all about impracticality, and astonishing looks.
And both have this...