> Cars all look the same now because they need to achieve a certain industry wide...

Cars seem to be all the same color these days too. Unfortunately, I think it's not just engineering constraints that are giving us "blanding" but a type of corporate marketing bean-counter that minimizes risk by selling to the lowest common denominator demographic. Apparently that LCD likes metallic-grey cars.

I'm disappointed that marketers (and perhaps too the buying public) have become so risk-averse when it comes to styling.