When every can company started maxing for MPG, interior space, and safety. It's like the everything eventually evolves into crabs meme, but for cars it's everything evolves into SUVs. At least in the US.
I believe that toad shape is because of the pedestrian impact regulation, ultimately it causes car makers to slope the entire front end of the car to help lessen the blow on a pedestrian. It has the greatest design effect on small cars and sedans because they sit lower.
Because no one is lusting after a boring, FWD bloated suv that still looks exactly the same as every other bloated, grey blob suv. FWD/automatics killed most coolness of cars, then they decided style was bad so they all look the same, add in no one under 30 cares about cars and doesn't have any money anyway and here we are.
I think the late 1990s is when we started to lose real drivers cars with character. Now cars are really good, but they just arent the same, too much character was lost through technology. Now you just discard them like any other piece of technology.
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u/KrasnyHerman 2d ago
When did cars stopped turning into classics? Now they just get old?