The Ovidian notion of "aurea aetas", the Golden Age, is alive and well in the automotive world. We always yearn for something long gone, and fail to appreciate what we have here and now. But that"s normal. I assume that the cavemen who painted the walls of the Altamira grottos were ostracized by their contemporaries for failing to comply with the custom of leaving the walls unadorned. Whatever each of us thinks, there really are some things in each golden age which are never again repeated, and