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I'm surprised to see how many people don't like Japan's commuter boxes, I find them absolutely lovely. They're cheap, effective and don't look like shit, and usually can reconize most of them through stuff like colours and contour, at least. Except for the E233s that is, those look good but are still samey and everything that's yellow and green is Shonan-Shinjuku to me, everything that's blue is Jôban.
Honestly, having curvy "sleek" fronts should be a crime for anything that goes under 150 km/h.
Also to answer the thread's question, and to tie in with my dislike for curves on slow doots, here's what my city bought a couple of years ago. You can find these same Series 7000s in a dozen other places in the country and I'm already tired of them. At least the air conditioning works and they're generally faster, still, they never break 70 km/h in my city.