Back in the day when I was a yut (late 50’s early 60’s) my group of teenage friends and I prided ourselves on our ability to name the make, model and year of every car that we saw on the streets. Now they all look the same. ;-(
“prided”, yea, I know.
“Back in the day when I was a yut (late 50’s early 60’s) my group of teenage friends and I prided ourselves on our ability to name the make, model and year of every car that we saw on the streets. Now they all look the same. ;-(”
I remember that very well. Reminds me of an old joke (hope I don’t get Zotted), where a bored house wife was out grocery shopping and followed the bag boy out to the parking lot. She watched his muscular rear end for a while, then moved up beside him and whispered “I have an itchypussy.”
The teenager promptly responded “You’ll have to point it out to me because I can’t tell one of them Japanese cars apart from the others.”
JC
I blame wind tunnels. Designers try to render the most aerodynamic vehicles they can modeling them based on airflow, and unsurprisingly, the air at the Ford, Toyota, BMW, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai design studios all flows pretty much the same.
Maybe it's my aging eyes, but they've looked the same to me for 20 years.
Remember when every September the new models came out? The dealers would have tarps over them sitting on the showroom floor and you couldn’t see what they looked like until the official day was there. Good ol’ days.