"Ubiquitously hip. That’s the best way to describe Citroën’s retro light commercial in 2017, a mammoth seven decades since it first appeared on French roads. A capable workhorse after the end of World War II, it wasn’t "
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Hip to Be Square?
![64ihscout Scout Poster](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/64ihscout.jpg)
Sometimes sophisticated industrial processes are over-rated. Sure, we love the hand-wrought curve of fine steel wrapped around a frame and some rolling gear. But luscious curves alone do not a cool motor make.
![tumblr_kpngf2jBug1qzsctzo1_500 box appeal](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tumblr_kpngf2jBug1qzsctzo1_500.jpg)
The Americans, in particular, have always known how to construct a good-looking box-on-wheels. It wasn’t just the stoic Swedes at Volvo who knew the beauty of form following function.
![hSvCVC7kkqsqis7lSn5Awvmto1_500 function over form](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hSvCVC7kkqsqis7lSn5Awvmto1_500.jpg)
Many an angular hunk of automotive goodness has been manufactured in the name of utility right out of the foundries and production lines of Detroit.
We can’t be the only ones who have gazed longingly out of airliners’ port holes at the ultimate utility vehicles – that’s right: those beauties that trundle around airport aprons. But could a milk-float ever be cool?
We think with the right box-like stripped-down aesthetic, there’s no reason why not. Just look at this hunkered down Stud.
![FMjAUV0Jir1xfv9wSEJ0mDzLo1_500 Studebaker square truck](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/FMjAUV0Jir1xfv9wSEJ0mDzLo1_500.jpg)
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