Cars have almost always looked the same. 1939 World's Fair parking lot: https://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-7/Parking_Lot.htm https://www

Cars have almost always looked the same. 1939 World's Fair parking lot: https://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-7/Parking_Lot.htm https://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-7/... 1959 Boeing employee parking lot: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/pacific-northwest-us-wa-id-ut-hi-ak/802928-1959-boeing-parking-lot-shot.html http://forums.pelicanparts.com/pacific-northwest-us-wa-id-ut... 1979 Omaha parking lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/classiccars/comments/5dk8iy/omaha_parking_lot_1979/ https://www.reddit.com/r/classiccars/comments/5dk8iy/omaha_p... The 90s was actually a brief period where cars did look a little different because you had the prime of the minivan explosion and the beginning of the transition to SUVs along with regular passenger cars. Then in the 2000s SUVs and desperate hunts for aerodynamic (and thus fuel efficiency) performance took over. Here are some silhouettes of pony cars from the 60s and 2000s: https://silhouettehistory.com/post/146062752267/pony-retro-silhouettehistory-silhouettes-of https://silhouettehistory.com/post/146062752267/pony-retro-s... They're the same, unless you are a hardcore car nut and can tell models apart from the rake of the B-pillar. Actually I would argue that the three modern pony cars look more different from each other than the ones in the 60s and 70s did. Of course there were exceptions, with classic sports, luxury, and utility vehicles standing out from their "normal, consumer" peers, but the same is true of today. Nobody is going to mistake a Lotus Evora for a Toyota Camry. But the 1968 Ford Fairlane and Chevy Impala were extremely similar-looking: boxy shape, long chrome stripe running down side, louvered vent below windshield, chrome trim around windshield, four sealed beam headlights, big chrome bumpers, similar windshield angles, wheelbase only 3 inches in difference. The same is true of the other car segments: one compact car looked like another, pickups looked the same, station wagons looked the same. I think what might be happening is that, yes, all automobiles of the current generation and type look similar-- but so did all cars of the past generations and when making comparisons they're remarking on how different generational "cohorts" look different and mistakenly thinking that meant vehicles within the cohort looked different.