The thing I noticed when I was over there wasn't so much ugly as boring. We had two or three Chevrolet Impalas - I can't actually remember what we were driving around LA - and it is just a boring looking car. And it had to be boring for me to notice despite my twin handicaps of having a tin eye for design in general and so not being a car person at all.
I was talking to someone about why American cars tend to be black/white/silver/cream. Apparently having a fashionable colour can date a car too quickly and destroy its resale value. So the chartreuse colours you see on Holdens won't be on the Pontiacs they are importing. It is a wierd sort of commercial conservatism. I guess it is just the companies responding to the markets; Honda/Toyota/etc have equally boring colour choices.
'Sworn to no party, and of no sect am I.' Frederick Vosper's republican motto.
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