Cars are a great source of this because their cost and consumer preferences being heavily based on style means that a relatively large amount of engineering effort can be expended on signalling.
For example, luxury cars are associate with having a short front overhang (distance between wheel and front of the car) and long hoods. This makes sense with a front-engine RWD car, but FWD cars do all sorts of contortions in order to mimic this look, e.g., Volvo's SPA platform
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