The Age of CombustionThe automobile is the ultimate analogue machine and mankind's most ingenious, seductive, and damaging invention. For over a century, cars have provided reference points for our notions of style, status, and desire. In design terms, the Age of Combustion was as rich and varied as architecture's Baroqueand far more popular. And now it is coming to an end, as the internal combustion engine is superseded by the battery and cars become wheeled computers,