Does anyone have the exact laws that dictate why cars have to look like this since the early 2000s? I always hear it's about pedestrian safety, but I can't find any specifics. I want to know who ruined vehicle design forever

>>28529679 (OP)
Well there have been no major changes since the 1990's, when the automobile was perfected by the Japanese. Since then it's just refining a perfected form; same reason the iPhone stopped changing. This type of car is really incredible, from an engineering perspective.

>>28529679 (OP)
Thankfully, there are still many exceptions to the trend. A few off the top of my head:
>Jeep-style (Wrangler, Bronco, G-Wagon)
>square cars (Cube, Soul, xB)
>American muscle cars
>911
>Nissan Z
>Corvette

Even among econoboxes, a good sedan is at least one step removed from the ubiquitous blob shape.

>>28529900
No, all of these cars have the hideous wide rocker panel look which began around 1997 and never went away

>>28529916
Do you even know what a rocker panel is?

>>28529920
Do you?
For the longest time this bit, you know, the rocker panel, was generally rolled under the car; even the super-square early 80's barges had this styling cue. Of course, around 1997-2003 every manufacturer simultaneously decided that giving every car the automotive equivalent of a college gut was in fact the way to go. Was it symbolic of weight gained in other areas of the car(s)? Was it the hip thing because bmw sort-of kind-of did it earlier than others? Was it pure fucking spite directed towards the consumer? No clue. But it's ugly, and it's never, ever, ever, ever going away.

>>28529916
>>28529954
That is the least of OP's pic's problems. Why does everything have to look like it belongs in a Michael Bay Transformers movie?

>>28529994
Everything after ~2014 just NEEDS to look like a fuckin pikachu transformers MONSTER TRUCK

>>28529999
Read 'em n weep, sonnyboys
And i KNOW no one's gonna fuckin'
Check 'em, sonnyboy