Too many times over the last dozen years I've looked at new cars and thought they were less attractive than the the previous year's model. It seems I'm not alone, for The Winding Road online magazine has come up with a list of ten cars that in their opinion looked better after their makeovers. Change for the sake of change often dominates the thinking of marketing chiefs when progressive updates to engineering and convenience features might be more useful to consumers. A typical example is the Honda Accord of 1997. It was near-ideal in size, style and performance but kept on getting larger and more powerful. Or how about the Volkswagen Beetle, which lasted through decades of minor changes without the need of a road-up makeover. Click through the Winding Road slide show and you'll notice how the auto industry follows its own trends, in this instance to wedge-type bodies, gunslit windows, and leering, slant-eyed headlamps. But was old really better than new?