I hope I can offer a fresh perspective on the topic: for some reason, automobiles (and perhaps furniture/household furnishings) is the only industry that for some reason is pressured to be more historic, classic, and “retro”. Nowhere else do we see this kind of thinking.
For instance, can you imagine if people were insistent on a “retro” look to their phones? Maybe that would result in a smartphone with a rotary dial… or a phone in the shape of a banana (Nokia banana phone, anyone?) with a pull-out antenna. Just thinking out loud here… but I’m a fan of progress for the sake of improving quality of life, services, products, and the world; everything else — in that light — seems rather irrelevant.
