A study in added girth

Thought this was kinda neat. What’s most surprising to us is how much lower the MkII’s roofline is over the MkI’s- very unexpected. That has to be some sort of mistake?

Overall, these cars seem to have held up fairly well, vis-à-vis the added porkiness of other cars over the same period (we’d love to see such a visual comparison done for the BMW 3- and 5-Series, for example).