New cars just don't feel quality anymore to me
09-14-2011, 07:56 AM
#12
I think quality across the board has risen a substantial amount compared to what things used to be. I think it's more that people are expecting to be coddled in interiors plastered from top to bottom in soft leather surfaces and freak out at the notion of plastic. Want to see plastic done wrong? Go sit in the last generation Camaro/Trans Am and listen to the dash make cracking/crunching sounds when you touch it, now that's nasty. Nowadays people want to go over otherwise very nice interiors with an electron microscope and go "OMGWTFBBQ, this panel gap is asymmetrical by 1.4mm!!! Unacceptable!!!"
09-14-2011, 12:26 PM
#13
With all this cost cutting, everybody wanting stuff as cheap as possible and that means China made product, cars used to have nice interiors to me.
The other day I sat in a new Civic and the plastic felt so cheap. It was flimsy and hard. I used to think Honda made good interiors, if the civic used to be the low end I could only imagine the Fit's interior.
The new 5 series just didn't win me over as the previous gen. My neighbor just got one and I'm starting to think that maybe its just across the board in automakers.
I sat in the new focus and unless it was leather equipped it was still cheap feeling.
We buy goods that we don't expect to last long like say a vacuum from China, are we wanting the same in a car now outside the engine/trans from lasting a while?
I'm just disappointed that's all. I still think the glory days of automobiles is the 2000's, the 1990's were overpriced, and now the 2010's are overpriced, heavy, and emissions restricted.
The other day I sat in a new Civic and the plastic felt so cheap. It was flimsy and hard. I used to think Honda made good interiors, if the civic used to be the low end I could only imagine the Fit's interior.
The new 5 series just didn't win me over as the previous gen. My neighbor just got one and I'm starting to think that maybe its just across the board in automakers.
I sat in the new focus and unless it was leather equipped it was still cheap feeling.
We buy goods that we don't expect to last long like say a vacuum from China, are we wanting the same in a car now outside the engine/trans from lasting a while?
I'm just disappointed that's all. I still think the glory days of automobiles is the 2000's, the 1990's were overpriced, and now the 2010's are overpriced, heavy, and emissions restricted.
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