KZfaq about ten years ago was Boxxy, too.

"Modern cars are much more curvy in design." *Laughs in CyberTruck.

Vox: How cars went from boxy to curvy Elon Musk: Hold my CyberTruck

In 2100 cars will be thicc

happened to me in 8th grade

dont bodyshame cars please

I actually always wondered this. I always prefered the old school boxy ones.

"Modern cars are curvy" Cybertruck: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

I've genuinely always wanted to know this.

and the reason all cars look the same today is because they've all been moving closer and closer to the most aerodynamic shape

Tesla was like "hmmmm triangles"

The difference between the curvy cars from the 40s and those of today: Even the curvy cars from those days looked really nice. Modern cars look like someone wrote a random shape generator and fed that into a manufacturing line.

What I don't understand is why older cars looked so good and then 80's and 90's cars looked so terrible...

who else loves the boxy cars?

**Mercedes-Benz G class left the chat**

"a whopping 71 cents" *laughing in 3 word language*

TL;DR, global warming caused all the clay models the designers use to design cars to melt so all the 90's cars look like they've melted a bit.

i kinda want boxy cars to come back.

1982: _Uwe Bahnsen makes curvy car; People laughed_ 2019: _Elon Musk makes boxy car; People laughed_

TAURUS! Now the North American car with the shape and the feel that we've never seen before *T A U R U S*

Basically when there are wars, humans makes progress.

Spoiler: Aerodynamics lowered gas consumption

*"Modern cars are much more curvy in design"* Elon Musk: Its rewind time

1980: Boxy cars 1990: Curvy Cars 2020: T R I A N G L E S

How Lara Croft went from boxy to curvy!

"And in the 90's, cars were curvy" *volvo laughs*

That won't change any soon ... meanwhile 2019 ... Tesla CyberTruck appears

About to comment about cybertruck **already lot of comments** **Leaves**

50s = flat cars 70s = boxy cars 90s = curvy cars 2010s = ball cars 2030s = 2 balls cars tbc...

I'm wondering what the role of institutional racism and white men was in this.

1985: Flying Cars! 3019: 100% Circular Ball Cars

Ive worked with cad in the automotive industry, and i think cad technology played a bigger role than represented in the video. Before cad, geometrical complexity was much more expensive in terms of human work. Now cad assists you in designing, creating the tooling on tools such as cnc, and even measuring very quickly the shape of manufactured products. All of this allows a lot more freedom in terms of design

Soon, All of the buildings will be curvy someday.

That 80s Taurus commercial cracked me up. Why do we have advertisements like that anymore? 😂😂😂

Curvy cars are more aerodynamic, but beyond a gentle rounding of the edges and corners, they also tend to be less space efficient, especially when it comes to cargo room. So many of the more utilitarian cars of Europe were actually getting boxier, sometimes boxy in the extreme, during the 1970s (eg. the curvy VW Beetle and Type 3 fastback gave way for the boxy Rabbit and Dasher) and the downsized U.S. cars of the mid-to-late 1970s (eg. Cadillac Seville, 1977 Chevrolet Impala, 1979 Ford LTD) imitated the boxiness of their European and Japanese counterparts. The 1980s, with people getting tired of boxy styling, improvements in manufacturing technology that made flush windows and smooth headlights cost effective and speed limits rising again, was an ideal time for a car like the Ford Taurus. Now cars are about as rounded as ever, but many trucks, even with smoothed edges, seem to emphasize the boxy nature of their cargo-friendly shapes. Fashion will probably continue to push styling in shifting directions, but aerodynamics will play a big role in shaping cars in the future, even those that emphasize cargo capacity.

Another major component to the radical shift in styling we see in the early 90s is the DOT approving the use of composite headlamps, allowing for headlamp and front end designs that simply would not have been possible with square, rectangular, or circular sealed beam lamps. Until then, the only options was complicated retractable headlamps, but with composite headlamps using specially shaped lenses, they could make any almost shape to fit designers' visions.

Grey Poupon has always had a curvy design

when cars have better curves than you do

in my opinion, modern cars are a pain to the eye while classic cars, boxy or not are beautiful

I love watching those old 70s action movies and seeing the boxy cars crash and stuff, it's so fascinating

I've always wondered about this

Goes from boxy to ugly... The 90s was a sad era for cars

Next cars are just gonna be circles

"Cars are curvy, and that won't be changing any time soon." Cybertruck: aight i'm boutta end this whole man's career

I like boxy cars

Is it me, or did almost all cars from the 70's look cool? Edit: What I mean by that is that today there is a huge price gap between cool looking cars and junk cars. But, in the 70's, a lot of the cheaper cars still looked interesting.

Rip the Ford Taurus 1986-2019

I would gladly chose a pre 2000s boxy truck over any vehicle in today’s time

People like their cars like they like their girls. Curvy!

I still love the Box body.

It's not only aerodynamics. Curvy cars tend to fare better in crashes because if the frontal roof arch has no stress points it is stronger and the passenger compartment holds its structural integrity much better. Also, rounded corners allow for easier maneuvering in tight spaces with fewer chances of touching walls or other cars.

I’d argue the Ford Sierra was received well, the fact it was consistently in the top 5 sold cars in Britain for nearly 11 years tells you all you need to know

can you remake this video on white girls? curious on how they got thick af.

I guess cars hit puberty in the 90's

Elon Musk: "Reverse reverse!" "Cha cha now y'all."

Cars looked damn fine from the 30's to the 70's we need to make cars great again

I think the square boxy cars look better

Then, it went from curvy to edgy.

...and it will not change anytime soon. THREE YEARS LATER CyberTruck

1930: Curvy 1977: Boxy 1993: Curvy 2019: Cybertruck (Boxy)

physics, that's why!

1990's Mazda RX7 FD is the definition of curvy

I want old cars back :(

And then in the early 2000’s they made cars bubbly.

I like old school cars much better

Nothing will beat the style of the 50's

I like the ones from the 70s way more! I think they look cooler

Real cars have curves

Nah dude, boxy Volvo's are the way 2 go.

Awe man I'm too late for the Cybertruck jokes.

1900s to1920s=boxy. 1930s to 1950s=curvy. 1960s to 1980s=boxy. 1990s to 2010s=curvy. 2020s= boxy.

Some curved sports cars look great but i think the modern sedans and their curves are extremely ugly.

The averege car in the 70's has a really good look. The average car in the 90's looks like an ugly toy car.

Vox: cars are more curveyer theese day Cyber truck: I pull a sneak on you

When the Taurus was unveiled, it was considered a *VERY* revolutionary design because its aerodynamic shape was nearly the most radical thing besides the landmark Audi 100 of the same period.

There is so much wrong with this video I don't even know where to begin. The most glaring example was the fact that all the European examples given were sports cars... even though they were talking about saving fuel? Yeah I'm sure people were buying porches to save money on fuel.

the next revolution of car is just going to be a sphere

"and since then cars have become curvier and curvier"

Vox is king of making videos nobody asked for but are interested in

Just like video games graphics.

Now explain why cars from the late 90's and early 2000' were ugly AF

1980: boxy cars 1990: curved cars 2020: cybertruck 2050: hexagon cars 987878778645: octohexseptexagon cars

60s/70s: sharp edges Late 80s/90s: *J E L L Y B E A N* Now: sharp edges but not boxy

Soon Cars Are Going To Be Flat

It also had to do with manufacturing and designing processes. Back in the 30/40's, they handmade the molds for the stamped steel, and alot of high end cars had panels hammered by hand to their final form. Then in the late 70's, computers started being used for the designing of cars but due how limited they were, designs were limited to straight lines and edges. That is why the 80's are the pinnacle of boxy. It has little to do with fuel prices since in the 50's fuel was cheaper then the 80's and 50's cars are way rounder, even in europe where economy matters.

1960s: I think our cars look better 2019: Am I a joke to you?

great! now make an updated one called "How cars went from curvy to boxy"

I love boxy cars.

That Taurus song needs a heavy metal remix with Cookie Monster vocals. \m/

Not sure why but I’ve always found boxier cars to be so much more aesthetically pleasing

I'll never understand as to why they started making cars uglier and just....boring and lame

Having started driving in the mid 70's, I have to say that most cars today look pretty well all alike. Hardly anything to distinguish the the various models and brands. So from a stylish perspective, boxy cars far surpass today's cars.

Boxy cars have one big advantage-you can actually sit in the back seat in comfort! Those jellybean cars have rear seats usable only by children and amputees.

It went from square, to curved, to a ELONgated pentagon. Get it? Hehe.... no? okay..

Short answer: Aerodynamics for efficiency and less drag

Boxy design all the way.

most boxy cars look better than most curvy ones in my opinion.

Boxy ones Just Look so much better

"Gas was expensive in europe" Show newspaper stating that gas was only 18 cents a gallon and that the rest was tax... Im french and yes we pay lot's, LOT'S of tax 😂

Who is the halfwit who wrote this? Oh, where to begin? 1) The whole Europe = Round, US = Boxy theme is simply, laughably wrong. How many wagons and hatchbacks from that era do I need to show to utterly disprove it? Let's look at 1970s Mercedes sedans (not the coupes, which were also rounded in the US) and Volvos and Fiats. And it only got worse in the 1980s on both sides of the ocean. 2) The rise of mass-market curviness was much less a function of gas prices and MPG standards than it was the ability for production to economically make stamping tools that could make the body parts, especially given the need for left/right symmetry. 3) Styling for curves v. corners has swung back and forth. 1960s cars were plenty curvy. Compare the Lamborghini 400GT or Miura to the Countach. Heck, compare a 1990s Cadillac to a modern stealth bomber one. 4) At 0:32, you show a Karmann Ghia, manufactured through 1974, racing against a late-80s wagon. But the KG is curvy while the later car is square. Um... 5) Rounded cars are not necessarily more aerodynamic. As an ex aerospace engineer who actually has done drag work in wind tunnels, I had to laugh at that. They *might* have less wake drag, but typically there is more profile drag. Shall I go on?