There's this idea in the community that manufacturers are static and never evolving, that the brands can't change, can't evolve, can't ever try something new in order to attract a new audience. Do you agree with that? Do you disagree with that?
TL;DRBoth artists agree manufacturer aesthetics shouldn't stay static, since real-world brands and tastes evolve over time, and CIG's own designs have changed over a decade.
The brands shouldn't stay completely stagnant, because, as you say, real-world car manufacturers don't stay the same forever. I can see where people come from, where stuff doesn't look like a given manufacturer from a set time, but you can think of stuff like the Constellation, the Aurora, that was designed well over a decade ago. So naturally the stuff we do now is going to be different, and we always want to try and improve on the manufacturer aesthetics.
Even we've changed. Changed during a decade. Changing fashion, changing cars, real cars. So it will change even in the video game aesthetic. A good-looking game from 10 years ago looks different from a good-looking game now, not just because the graphics are better, but because we keep changing the taste. Someone will come and do something completely groundbreaking, and everyone will start copying. This happened all the time in cars: [someone] removed the grille on the front and everyone started removing the grilles on the front.