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> But aren't cars rather like processors? Sure, it costs a lot to design 
> one, but once it's designed you can just go on churning out copies of it 
> forever. I mean, hell, when was the Ford Fiesta designed? And it's *still* 
> on sale today! Surely they've more than recovered the original design 
> costs by now?

As Wikipedia humourously says, there's "no genetic links" between a 1976 
Fiesta and the latest model (which wasn't even supposed to be called 
Fiesta). "Fiesta" is a brand name that is kept for a series of cars aimed at 
the same market segment(s), and that are periodically redesigned, sometimes 
from the ground up.

G.


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