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BLACK MIRROR

logic of it really – two headlights representing the eyes, a grille for the mouth (or sometimes the nostrils); some cars, like the 2nd-gen Mazda3 and the Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite, look dementedly happy. The rear end of the SEAT Altea XL looks incredibly sad, like a clinically depressed robot. And the Model A Ford we have here? Well, it doesn’t so much have a face as a personality, an aura: a really bloody scary one. This is the kind of car that’d give small children nightmares. Hell, it’s making our palms sweat, and we’ve seen the Scream trilogy twice and hardly hid behind the sofa at all. Its nickname is ‘The Marauder’, a term which describes those who rove the country looking for things to pillage and plunder and defile. It’s a car

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