The usual response to this is "aerodynamics have gotten better". That said, a lot of vintage cars are still on the road and so it would be fairly easy to test i

The usual response to this is "aerodynamics have gotten better". That said, a lot of vintage cars are still on the road and so it would be fairly easy to test if their bug impacts line up with how older people remember them being. And since the illustration shows 1998, those cars are definitely still around.