Yes, that car made a lot of enemies out of customers.
We had one, and other than trivial little things like the ROOF rusting out, it was a pretty good car...
Nevertheless the styling (tailfins) took America by storm in 1957. The younger set have no idea how exciting and anticipated was the arrival in the fall of the new cars from the big three. The car bodies changed every year, and they didn’t have computers to design with. Now they all look boringly alike and car bodies get changed every six years if that.