FedGov mandated mileage and safety regs will do that. They need extremely low drag coefficients and high crash protection, so all the makers converge on the same aerodynamic and crush-zone solution. It’s a real shame.mone more miserable effect of big brother.
However, I DO like the fact that today’s cars will frequently have driver and passenger walk away from crashes that would have killed everybody sixty years ago.
Add those safety precautions into the old car designs and they would have much better survivability than the econoboxes.