I just wish they'd try harder to make cars look less bulbous.
I hear ya. I've said it before here that older cars (from the very early 70's back to the 30's) had personality and style. You can still get that, but it's mostly on the high end market like Ferrari. I think that's why the restomod craze is so big now, to get exactly what you first described. Which is why if I had money, I'd blow it on something like this:
