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I don't buy it. Curvy cars were not some high end European flirtation in the 60s. Pretty much all cars in the "old days" were rounded. Random examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Deluxe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Lark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_180

Why publish an article whose premise is so obviously wrong?

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I agree. The real question is why did even European cars go boxy in the second half of the 1970s? A good example is the Ford Cortina Mk 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#TC_Mark_III_.28197... vs Mk 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#Mark_IV_.281976.E2...

I think late 70s/early 80s boxy cars were the anomaly - all other eras were curvy.

The article specifically mentions that earlier curvy cars had gone out of fashion and sold more poorly than bigger, boxier ones. Hence the trend towards boxy designs. Theres even a picture of a 1930s streamliner.

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