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Welcome This month we celebrate originals so special their makers revisited them. Did they do the right thing? Critics of retrospectively inspired modern car design – and I’ve been one of them – see a cynical attempt to cash in on old glories one more time by manufacturers too lazy to excite us with a fresh vision of the future. But creativity in everything from music to cars draws on a complex cocktail of both innovation and influence from what already exists, and that can include creations from the distant past, from sea creatures to cars. In his interview on page 64, Frank Stephenson’s description of how he arrived at a Mini design for the new millennium gives its shape a legitimacy that elevates it above those once-successful musicians re-releasing…