It's true that the majority of vehicles haven't been awesome looking for a long time, personally I prefer the looks of trucks from the 60's and 70's. Those body styles had style. The only truck that really caught my attention over the last 2 decades would be the gen 2 Tundra which is partially why I bought mine. It still looks like a truck but it for some reason has a front end design that reminds me of the early to mid 2000's Yamaha muscle craft skis. The side view has some very reminiscent lines to say a 2000's GPR's side view appearance, when a truck can have some similarities to a nice looking ski, it has won most of the battle in my preferences lol. What really seems to have triggered it though was the introduction of the Transformers movie. It seems like the year after that movie was released, almost everybody out there started making their products look like Transformers lol.
What you were saying about Toyota's quality caving, I fully agree. I had to work out a lot of gremlins in my Tundra that were inherent manufacturing flaws, flaws that really should have been Toyota's to correct regardless of age when they knew about the design flaws. My truck has seen 3 water pumps in the 5 years I have owned it, it's a 2009. Who knows how many prior to that. The rear diff had to be fully rebuilt from a known design flaw but I ate the bill on it to the tune of $3500.00! Sometimes extended aftermarket warranties are worth the hassle lol. Out of my own budget though I had to replace the front diff due to design flaws, the rear drive shaft, rear leaf spring packs and do the best I could for repairing the box rot...which wouldn't have happened if they didn't use a seam sealer around the 4 support pads and just bolted the box to them with a gasket. The seam sealer allowed water to seep in but it couldn't evaporate out so it just sat trapped in there and rotted out all 4 pad mount locations.
I'm hoping this new Tundra that has been in the R&D for the last 7 or so years will be the tipping point to bring back quality. They've been testing and refining it all this time to work out any immediate and long term bugs. For once they're actually trying to make that unicorn bulletproof reliable truck.
