HO model cars, and street scenes

[torikoos]

Thanks guys, that's a few links for me to explore! I do sense that my suspicions are correct and we collectively suffer from the lack of 'ordinary' cars , whatever era we model. We find the same cars on 'everyone's' layout, which reminds me of the earlier days of a 'famous' Preiser figure, the running fat man in a blue jacket holding on to a hat trying to catch his train, a figure that was present on almost any layout I visited about 20 years ago...
Surely mr Bush, Herpa, Wiking, ModelPower, Atlas etc should realise there is a big need for these, time to start lobbying the manufacturers!
I know it's cheaper for them to release a commercial vehicle, and then offer thousands of paintschemes with all sorts of company logo's etc printed, but I don't want my streets full of these, a few will do, the vast majority need to be 'ordinary' vehicles, without the hemi engines, V8's etc, but your average Honda Accord, VW Passat, BMW 3, Ford Escort, etc etc