And they've done a fantastic job with that car. It's proportionally spot on.

It's just a shame that we can't because we might be all doing a little bit better.

Because there's no rear overhang and in a rear impact everyone's dead in a 205. I didn't want everyone to die. Hello and welcome to episode 54 of the Collecting addicts podcast. Most of

us are UK-based, Manish however, is in the Middle East. Lucky him. Now, starting off today, all new

cars are ugly. Is that a statement that any of the addicts can support.

Neil Clifford, you asked it or you stated it,

so you can answer it.

Now.

It was a genuine question as opposed to a particularly strong opinion

that I've got but I suppose I always worry that we all

post-50s turn into old farts that say the weather was always better in the past and the music was always better and

the fashion was always better and women were better looking and no one was fat and

I try to avoid that looking back thing but I do I do think that cars probably were

prettier in the olden days before you had all these regs and airbags and European Union telling you how to design things and how you can't

kill people on pedestrian crossings.

So I suppose they probably are a bit uglier, aren't they?

Yes, it's more difficult to name really pretty cars nowadays that or maybe we

maybe we you know you just hped back to the good old days when your life was at its peak in the 20 when you were 20s or 30s and now we're all old farts. I'm not sure which is the answer.

There were some ugly cars.

The question was, are all modern cars ugly? It was not really to compare them against

what they were building in the 50s and 60s and I think it probably was because the

hint was the word modern yeah but I I had a yeah all new cars I think it was but I

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