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"I was thinking before you arrived: I'm three times your age, have thirty times your experience, and ten percent of your future." It's the sort of thing older people say all the time to young Turks, but in Robert Cumberford's measured, rumbling baritones it sounds neither haughty nor bitter. It's just the truth. It also explains why I'm sitting in the musty Best Western where Cumberford is staying for the Detroit auto show, learning about the seventy-five-year-old who has served as Automobile Magazine's design expert for as long as I've been alive.