In the 90s, cars from the 70s and 60s were seen as classic, but in 2022 cars from the 90s or 2000s can still be seen in daily use, and in terms of body design, many don’t even look that far off modern cars. What happened around the late 80s?

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Edit: great responses, Reddit. People have largely addressed the form factor aspect of my question. But am I wrong in sensing that cars from the late 90s seem to be more reliable and functionally acceptable in 2022, than most cars from the 70s were in the 90s? Was there some engineering breakthrough that made them more long lived?

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its because the big industries played to the cool crowd in the 60’s n 70’s

the cars were bad ass

then the bean counters got onboard in the 80’s

then you get civics and pinto’s

in short

from the imortal mouth of homer simpson

Rock n roll was perfected in 1973