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McLaren is changing its logo, but the interesting part isn’t just the logo itself. It’s where the idea comes from. The new wordmark takes inspiration from an old service station in Au
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Car people love a comeback story. Give a nameplate twenty years in the grave, hint at a revival, throw a teaser online, and suddenly half the internet starts acting like an old badge alone is