It could very well be a close race between 2-5 electric cars. But attractiveness could be another reason 1 is the big winner.
I admit that modern cars are better in every way other than looks. And it is amazing what 60's cars could do without a single transistor. But dang, I do like the way the 60's cars looked.
And, of course, a couple years later the E-bodies appeared from Chrysler. They were so damned good looking that Chrysler revived the style recently.
I had a 67 Mustang in college, and have a 72 E-body today. I'd get a 68 Charger if I had garage space.
Edit: I forgot to add in the original "Gone In 60 Seconds", not the pathetic remake.
It's like that for most action sequences, I recently saw a Jackie Chan documentary that has him explain the differences of his action shots, and the things to be mindful of to make them be more believable as to be of one long full sequence.
1. use of CGI
2. overlaying with music (car nuts want to hear the note of the engine and singing tires instead)
3. hitting the fruit cart
4. hitting the hidden ramp that causes the car to flip over
5. speeding up the film
6. bad foley work, like sounds of double-clutch shifting while both hands can be seen on the wheel, tires squealing on dirt roads, etc.
Because unlike other things they discuss, styling is 100% subjective. What would be the point of the journalists talking about their own tastes when you are going to make your own mind up about the styling anyway? On top of that, some cars look better in some colors than others, so there's more personal taste at work there.
Personally, while I really like the Model S and Model X, I found the Model 3 prototype's styling to be kinda meh in the three colors they've shown. I might still get one but it won't be because of the styling.
FWIW, I currently have a Nissan LEAF in blue and I think it looks really funky and fun. But it is "abnormal", so it's polarizing. Most EVs so far are styled in a polarizing way. It just so happens you seem to fall on the "I don't like it" side of that spectrum.
There are plenty of normal looking hybrids these days.
I think there are other electric cars out there that are the electric version of a "typical" car.
My theory is automakers want the car to stand out, even if it's ugly, since otherwise how will anyone know you are driving an electric vehicle?
(The electric has a practical range of about 80 to 120 km, i.e. around 100 miles, so not a great success.)
For example, the Tesla 3 pushes the passenger space forward and backwards to fit more people in the same space. It can do so because there's no big, heavy engine up front. Starting with a traditional car body and adding electric is just going to waste space.
Also the most iconic full EV car, Tesla model S, looks very much like combustion engine cars. In fact, from distance it's hard to tell it apart from a Ford Mondeo, the symbol of mediocrity (at least in the UK) which is also a fine and nicely contoured car.
The more distinctly formed EV cars, on the other hand, look about as weird as Granma Duck's 1916 Detroit Electric; they have some futuristic aerodynamics but on the desirability scale, they seem to suck.
The interior is where there's a bunch of new rules in play, with the front mounted ICE being replaced with a floor of batteries and between wheel motors. That directly allows Tesla to be amongst the safest cars ever built, and to fit more passengers, more comfortably than similarly sized ICE cars.
Tesla needs those advantages to balance out initial shortcoming of EV cars, at lower mass-market price points that becomes even more important.
There was a time when most programmers did their own art. This is reminiscent of that time.
No competitor breaks this cycle because all major competitors for middle-class cars also have luxury divisions.
And good evidence that startups (yes Tesla is still a startup) will always be better at exploiting inefficiencies in larger companies.
I think that it limits how mass market you can go, however it seemed to work for the Prius.
[1] https://www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/zoe.html