I can agree with you on that one, especially since the first few years of that decade were in an aesthetic no-man’s-land between the blobfest of the 90s and the post-2010 crease craze. And commuter cars were not alone, as I explained long ago in a comment for the winning entry in CSC 13:
By the way, in light of recent events, I am expecting the next round of this challenge to be the last one of all - although I might want to continue my company’s lore beyond that point regardless.