Great designers seldom make great advertising men because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
Over the past 20 years I have noticed that the most flexible dynamic inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which like it or not is modern reality.
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.