In the '50s, we taunted the clunky cars of the U.S.S.R. for their farm-wagon squareness; now we drive cool SUVs.
The shape of the average commuter vehicle has changed throughout the decades; out with the boxy, Soviet-era designs, replaced by sleeker and more aerodynamic shapes. 
The cars of the '50s were never ridiculed or criticized for their shape. 