The major shift in automotive aesthetics isn't just the size: it's the openness. If you look back at British and especially American cars from the late 20th century, especially pre-'90s, they all had massive windows, broad, tall windshields, and in America half of them were convertibles where you just drove around without a roof at all most of the time.
Windows have gotten steadily smaller and narrower as vehicles have gotten bigger, and they're also much more likely to be tinted now to the point where cops are pushing for laws against it.
I honestly think this corresponds with declining levels of social trust in the West. In 50 years, we've gone from having wide open cars, unlocked front doors and yards with no fences to building houses like fortresses and cars like tanks.
The window tint is a serious problem, especially on the windshield. Dumb faggots get darker and darker windows, brighter and brighter headlights to compensate and now nobody can drive at night without getting their retinas burned out or wearing sunglasses.
The mundane explanation is just safety regulations. If you want to survive a side impact, you need a thicker and taller door. Then you want side curtain airbags to deploy from the pillars, so those have to be thicker and they can't be as tall. That makes all cars heavier so you have to increase the thickness of everything, and it just snowballs.
Cars all look the same because of EPA regulations. There's only so many ways you can make a car aerodynamic to squeeze as much MPGs as possible.
The biggest exception in recent history is Elon's retarded Cybertruck, where it can ignore all fundamentals of chassis design simply because it's an EV.
The major shift in automotive aesthetics isn't just the size: it's the openness. If you look back at British and especially American cars from the late 20th century, especially pre-'90s, they all had massive windows, broad, tall windshields, and in America half of them were convertibles where you just drove around without a roof at all most of the time.
Windows have gotten steadily smaller and narrower as vehicles have gotten bigger, and they're also much more likely to be tinted now to the point where cops are pushing for laws against it.
I honestly think this corresponds with declining levels of social trust in the West. In 50 years, we've gone from having wide open cars, unlocked front doors and yards with no fences to building houses like fortresses and cars like tanks.
The window tint is a serious problem, especially on the windshield. Dumb faggots get darker and darker windows, brighter and brighter headlights to compensate and now nobody can drive at night without getting their retinas burned out or wearing sunglasses.
The mundane explanation is just safety regulations. If you want to survive a side impact, you need a thicker and taller door. Then you want side curtain airbags to deploy from the pillars, so those have to be thicker and they can't be as tall. That makes all cars heavier so you have to increase the thickness of everything, and it just snowballs.
Cars all look the same because of EPA regulations. There's only so many ways you can make a car aerodynamic to squeeze as much MPGs as possible.
The biggest exception in recent history is Elon's retarded Cybertruck, where it can ignore all fundamentals of chassis design simply because it's an EV.