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It's very easy to tell. They're like your old cars only better looking, with less overhang and fewer fins.
"Better looking?"
Only if "better looking" means the look of a melted bar of soap, blob-styling, chopped-off rear ends and/or the plastic bubble look! (But, yes, some people do think that looks "good," so you may have a point.)
I, however, liked it much better when American cars looked like Americans cars and not like Japanese cars. The other day, I mistook a Buick LaCross for a Toyota! It would have been impossible for me to see a 1960s Buick and think it was a Toy(ota)!
Only if "better looking" means the look of a melted bar of soap, blob-styling, chopped-off rear ends and/or the plastic bubble look! (But, yes, some people do think that looks "good," so you may have a point.)
I, however, liked it much better when American cars looked like Americans cars and not like Japanese cars. The other day, I mistook a Buick LaCross for a Toyota! It would have been impossible for me to see a 1960s Buick and think it was a Toy(ota)!
Except they did look like Toyotas. We just didn't get those Toyotas here at the time. Same with a lot of European cars we didn't get here at the time.
This is a '60s Toyota that we never got in the US, It's not a copy of anyting American, but it shares the '60s styling cues of American cars of the day, and to people not well versed in the individual '60s cars, they might think it's very similar to a Dodge or Olds.
This looks like Falcons and Valiants:
Again, had we got them at the time, they would have fit right in with other mid size and compact cars of their era. Same with the full sizers we never got:
Come on, Merc. How often would you see those cars you posted in the U.S.? (BTW, that green one looks nothing like a Valiant.)
But, as you can see, even those oddball cars you posted had some styling (and chrome). As can be seen by the photos I have posted before, a huge majority of compact- and mid-sized modern family cars look the same... the overall rounded shape, the plastic bumpers, the stumpy rear end and the lack of chrome (and what "chrome" is there is plastic chrome).
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