I agree. The real question is why did even European cars go boxy in the second half of the 1970s? A good example is the Ford Cortina Mk 3: http://en.wikipedia

I agree. The real question is why did even European cars go boxy in the second half of the 1970s? A good example is the Ford Cortina Mk 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#TC_Mark_III_.281970.E2.80.931976.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#TC_Mark_III_.28197... vs Mk 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#Mark_IV_.281976.E2.80.931979.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#Mark_IV_.281976.E2... I think late 70s/early 80s boxy cars were the anomaly - all other eras were curvy.