Who's to say whether a car's design is good or not?

We all know when we see something we like, but very few are equipped to judge if a design is objectively rightThe Cupra Born VZ has 779mm axle overhangs – “front and back!”, as Ross from Friends once memorably exclaimed. They match.
And in however many road test datasets it is that I’ve had the honour to compile in 13 years of being an Autocar road tester and another seven on the periphery of being one, I can’t think of a single other test subject of which you could