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Default Cars have definitely changed

In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
Austin Metropolitan is a strong contender.

https://goo.gl/RFwTia


That was a 50s car though, and didn't look much worse than the rest of
the crop from that era.


Really? Some very handsome UK cars in the '50s. MG Magnette. Riley RM
series. Even the large Fords were OK. Then loads of smaller makers like
Alvis and Lea Francis. Before the elegant offering of Rolls, etc.

The Nash Metropolitan was hideous then as now. A UK designer's attempt at
a scaled down US car incorporating all the worst aspects of them.

The modern equivalent would be those small Japanese pastiches of classic
designs.

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