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    25 July 2017

    Episode 302

    30 minutes

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    Buckle up for a driving tour of the best in automotive design with Gordon Murray, the man behind the McLaren F1 road car. Plus: Monocle’s Robert Bound on the merits of being in the driving seat (and why George Jetson may have a steer on the future of motoring), and the third instalment of our Ljubljana design biennial mini-series.

    25 July 2017

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    Chapter 1

    The man behind the McLaren F1

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    McLaren F1 road car designer Gordon Murray explains the process of designing one of the world’s finest automobiles.

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    Are driverless cars driving us mad?

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    Monocle’s Robert Bound muses on why self-driving cars might be all hype and hot air.

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    Ljubljana Design Biennial

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    The third instalment of our mini-series takes us deep underground with Italian design duo Formafantasma.

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