Any idea why so many vehicles are ugly today?
Because they cannot start with a clean sheet of paper.
Frontend, backend, rollover... collision requirements.
Exterior lighting, line of sight for the driver, mirrors.
After all that and more, a low drag coefficient is very nice.
Then the design team gets to select the color scheme.
They are designed to be difficult to reshape after accidents, so expensive replacement parts have to be bought after accidents rather rather cheaply hammering panels back into shape.
I think they are using more plastics to reduce weight. It clashes with the regular body panels. $.02
Every car looks like a Taurus because of the CAFE Standards. Automakers had to squeeze every last MPG out of their automobiles. They all started looking the same.