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Why do people complain that all cars today look the same when
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Why do people complain that all cars today look the same when all cars used to look even more the same
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nostalgia for an age that never existed is the main reason
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I would rather have good looking cars than bad looking ones
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>20th century
>cars look similar due to one manufacturer trying a new thing, the public loving it and other companies scrambling to make their cars look similar

>21st century
>cars look identical because pedestrian safety says getting hit by a two ton hunk of steel should be a pleasant experience and windows are just worse backup cameras
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>>15232653
21st century is better
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>>15232665
Consider the following:

>20th century
>get hit by a car and die

>21st century
>get hit by a car and die but the last thing you see is retarded angry headlights and an asian teen girl tweeting from her phone
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>>15232673
so its still better?
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>>15232679
leave
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The only time cars looked drastically different from other makes was the 50s and 60s
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>>15232683
no

>>15232693
thats a big negatory

shit was still similar
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>>15232701
This is a 57 Ford
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>>15232721
This is a 57 Mercury
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>>15232721
yeah bruh revolutionary
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>>15232728
This is a 57 Lincoln
If these look similar to you, you're blind. The only 50s cars that look similar are the Chrysler products and even then there are big differences
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>>15232693
How can you say that when the 70's were just a continuation of the 60's with less horsepower
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>>15232738
cherry picking makes you look stupid

they all look similar in general
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>>15232749
How? Just sounds like you got BTFO and can't deal with the buttmad
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>>15232762
>how does picking exceptions make me look stupid

you really are retarded
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>>15232738
>The only 50s cars that look similar are the Chrysler products and even then there are big differences
Even when cars did look similar, there were enough differences (even from the same parent company, like you mentioned with the Ford trio) to stand out and make people prefer one or another instead of "I want the blue one with the iphone hookup."

If this doesn't make your dick rock hard get out of my face. Postwar is best era.
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>>15232770
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NOTHING ALIKE!
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>>15232799
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>>15232772
I love these old brochures.
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>>15232777
>>15232770
m8 even with the cherrypicked angle and colors those cars look different. The fins on the desoto come above the windows, the grille is straight and the DeSoto has a distinct rear-end
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>>15232808
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>>15232816
>slight variations mean they dont look the same

nope

Im right youre wrong no matter how much in denial you are
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>>15232799
>>15232807
>the guy who said cherrypicking makes you look like a retard resorts to cherrypicking
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>>15232837
hey look

it looks the same

thats not cherry picking its schooling your retarded ass
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>>15232701
fuck off cunt
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>>15232846
>>15232829
>being this assmad you got BTFO
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>>15232693
Yeah, about that ...
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>>15232857
>has to pull out the memes since he knows he lost

gg

you lost pretty bad
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>>15232808
>Fordomatic
>Master-Guide
>Swift Sure
>MagicAire
>Signal-Seek

The best thing is the names every manufacturer gave to every single thing ranging from transmissions to air conditioners.
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>>15232808
>Ford Tudor
>two door
>Fordor
>four door

REAL IMAGINATIVE
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>>15232909
>tfw no Strato-Flight Hydramatic in my pontiac
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>>15232910
>tfw no Quadrajet four barrel on your Rocket in your merry Eighty Eight

Oh wait, GM gave that to the Corvette instead.
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>>15232881
>chevy and olds basically same company
>dodge and plymouth basically same company
>olds and mercury basically same company
so you've found three similiar looking cars, which makes sense because thats probably what people wanted to buy back then.

the main reason people believe old cars looked much more different is because the ones they remember were the ones that stood out.
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>>15232673
>an asian teen girl tweeting from her phone

>tfw windshield breaks and I touch her with my dismembered limb
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In any given era the majority of cars will look similar, with a few stand-outs. The further we get from a given era, the fewer run of the mill cars people bother to keep running, until it comes back around to when literally anything from that time period is considered worth owning/preserving.
People who fetishize late-80s and early-90s cars are funny because they don't want to admit most of them look the same, but they really do. It's mostly wedges with pop-ups. I'm not saying it doesn't look good, but it is terribly common.
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>>15232957
>olds and mercury basically same company
Mercury is Ford. Olds is GM.
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>>15232610
imo 80s had the largest varience
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>>15232610
Well in the 60-early 70's a lot of cars were very different before safely and fuel economy ruined everything
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>>15233081
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>>15232693
Maybe the 60's but goddamn was the 50's homogeneous.
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>>15233486
Was just about to post this
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>>15233081

are you sure there wasn't any ammonia in that milk you with breakfast this morning?
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>>15233486
>Accord, Escort, mk2 Celica Supra
>S12/Gazelle, Foxbody Mustang
>mk3 Supra, FC RX7, AE86 Corolla
>third gen Camaro, 944, Starion
>928, FB RX7, Daytona

>tfw 80's wedgeboxes are your love
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>>15232881
Cars back then even for regular people actually had color options. Opposed to grey, tanish grey, bluish grey and one $400 option for red
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>>15233522
Not just color options, you could actually get individual options.

>want different style wheels
>need to buy a $1999.99 "performance" package
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>>15233560
That's entire the Americans' fault because they can't wait for an order and instead demand to drive their new car home the same day, meaning that dealers need to have all the popular combinations on the lot, and accordingly forcing manufacturers to boil down their range to a few colors and options packages.
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>>15232701
EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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>>15232721
>>15232728
>>15232732
>>15232738
>>15232770
>>15232777
>>15232799
>>15232807

arr rook same

>>15232762
and you're still a babby
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>>15233589
Bullshit. It's all about focus groups and individual options being too much of a hassle for normal buyers.
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>>15232653
close

>20th century
>cars look the same because they are built with a straightforward design as a machine that is built to fucking move people with the given tech
>surprised when there is a common layout
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>>15232970
>>tfw windshield breaks and I touch her with my dismembered limb
you're gonna be breaking rocks for a thousand years, friendo
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