I've always been a Bentley fan, but with the motto: The older, the better. For a long time I couldn't get excited about the Bentleys of the 80s, 90s and the beginning of the new millennium. Today, for example, I find a Bentley Brooklands or Azure very nice. Not that I could afford one...
Jens, this is a perfect example of what I mean. When it was new, it was perhaps too pompous or too few classic form elements in the details, whatever. Today, the perception is dominated by the proportion of the body, which is fundamentally different in modern cars.
RichardV6, I also think that our taste is not only islolated by the perception of a car, for example, but very much by the development of the design language around this object, so it's a relative consideration, never a detached one. And ok, the examples of cars that were terrible at the time and that you still don't like today exist, of course. Let's look at them as a phenomenon of contemporary history.
