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Originally Posted by Pain Train
If it sells why would they change
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It sells because we no longer have an alternative to boring cookie cutter sedans and soulless commuters unless you want to buy a 40-50k Euro machine.
Daimler Chrsyler did some wonderful things with the 300 and the Magnum it made it so that you could get a cool looking car at a reasonable price.
Not everybody wants to drive a boring car but at the same time they don't want to drive something that's impractical. For the last 20 years it's like good looking,interesting and practical were mutually exclusive terms. I honestly get jealous when I look at the styling of the cars from the 50s and 60s and some from the early 70s. A 57 Chevy was a common commuter car back in the day but if you drove by in one of those today you'd turn heads because they actually look good nearly 50 years later...they are classics. Fast forward to 2050...do you think anybody will be clamoring to look at the old 2004 Camary or 2005 Accord? No because they are boring and heartless.
Hopefully in the next few years the car companies will start producing cars that fall back in line with those classic looking cars of the past and start making things that fit more the North American cultural and vehicular heritage.
Personally I'm tired of all the Japanese and Euro styling rip of domestics. A look that in my opinion doesn't look all that nice in it's original execuction much less an American bastardization of it.