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Old 06-08-2016, 03:12 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by Tcoat View Post
Don't think cars are "designed to have faces" anyway. It is just a result of having two headlights that look like eyes that make the rest of the front seem like a face. Not a deliberate design feature. (except maybe the Miatas with their moronic grins).
Correct, the "fancy" term for it is Pareidolia. It is the human brain associating faces to anything closely resembling a face as part of a survival technique from when we were all naked and afraid....like after the last FT86Club drinking binge.
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