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Current model cars are just so hideously ugly. Vaguely military look, like wannabe versions of something the fashy villain from cyberpunk fiction would drive.
Chrome branding replaced with black, on dark color body, in glossy but non metallic paint. Dark gray, green, or copies of that hideous Tesla dark blue. 
The cybertruck of course is this taken to the comical extreme, but they're all doing this.
I don't think it's because it's what the public wants. It's indicative of how the entire decision making class is wrapped up in their stupid fashy fantasy that they're the good guys.
@dalias That's part of it, but there's also the much more mundane reason that car manufacturers all know they have to overhaul their visual design language every 5-10 years for planned obsolescence reasons. It's important to them that you can tell at a glance how old a car is regardless of how well it's maintained.
And I think they ran out of sensible, non awful ways to design the exterior of a car.
@muvlon I get that, but the aesthetics of the new visual design reflect decision makers' views of what "the future" looks like, and that's telling.
Seriously. I want the cool sleek looking brightly colored Future Cars from those books we had as kids:
@dalias model cars— the remote-controlled kind?
@jn No, real cars. Model as in make/model/year.
@dalias Yes. I had to buy one during the pandemic because a drunk driver totaled mine and transit here is bad. I don’t like how it looks. First time I’ve made a major purchase of something I do not like.
@dalias 100% don't give a fuck what consumers want, and just trying to make military-looking Avengers Captain America bullshit looking products, and we're all supposed to go along with it.
@dalias but car manufacturers are already peak shitty, as they harvest and steal so much personal data and sell it to third parties. That's practically their main business: selling stolen consumer data to third parties.