The cup holder, in its modern automotive incarnation, is about 30 years old. It achieved industrial-design celebrity status in the 1980s, and it's been proliferating ever since.

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The first true cup holders were primitive and garish and non-integral to the car’s design. Mostly, they were plastic holsterlike devices that hooked on to the inside of the door, staying in ...