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yes, if you pick one of the ugliest modern cars, and compare it to one of the best-regarded car designs from the last 50 years, modern cars are ugly.

however if you compare these two, we can only conclude that cars are getting better looking: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2019/03/28/17/00DE283D000...

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images...

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Oh dearie me. Hadn't seen one of those before. That over muscled slab fronted steroid abuser is not a patch on a DB5. Or 6. Or even a mid 70s Vantage. It doesn't look deserving of an Aston badge.

Actually, that's a really odd car. I looked around for more pictures ... it looks fine looking head on toward the front, as does a perfect side view. Every other angle looks oh so wrong. I have no idea how they achieved that! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB5#/media/File:A...

Yeah, that new vantage is actually not that great looking, is it. I didn't look too closely, just grabbed a random shot off image search. The previous iteration of that car looked so good.

Which I think is a neat summary of current cars all having got over fat and bloated. The Jag F type is similarly too big (for my taste), but is one of a very few that manages to wear it well. An E type it is not, but it manages that "certain something".

Worth pointing out that the Reliant Robins on Top Gear were modified so that they flip (more) easily [0].

[0]: https://jalopnik.com/clarkson-reveals-bombshell-top-gear-mod...

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