I dunno, for me the thing which stands out when you look at the profiles is that the design of E21 screams &quot;late seventies model&quot;, the E30 is very much an eighties design, whereas the more recent models&#x27; designs just say &quot;designed in the nineties or some time since then&quot;, and I think that slowing in the evolution of design trends is the case for most marques.<p>If you hid the badges on the side profile of the F30 and told me it was a Japanese car from 1998, I&#x27;d probably believe you, but conversely if a rebadged E46 were launched tomorrow, nobody would accuse it of looking &quot;dated&quot;.