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Depends on the era and brand. The 1980’s was defined by corner cutting low quality and “buy American” marketing to compensate by playing on nationalism. In 2023
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
Depends on the era and brand. The 1980’s was defined by corner cutting low quality and “buy American” marketing to compensate by playing on nationalism. In 2023 I think most brands have reversed that, but not all.
They all, though, have rushed a higher margin EV product out hoping that magic happens over night and being surprised it actually takes time to build a new vehicle platform. Teslas advantage is many years of development without meaningful competition.
The result is pretty crummy EVs, articles lamenting EVs are unreliable (rather than car makers are making unreliable EVs), etc. Except for Tesla, which are middle of the pack for reliability.
- iancmceachern 3y agoIt would be weird to compare an EV of today to any car of any other Era. It's safe to assume that we would be comparing cars of the same era.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI’m comparing American auto manufacturer build quality in general across eras.
- iancmceachern 3y agoIndeed. And that's weird, because we cannot compare EV build quality across eras. And the parent comment was regarding comparing EVs to non EVs in regards to build quality. It's like we're comparing top grossing sports teams from 2023 and someone starts talking about how the 2023 Yankees could beat the 1912 Yankees hands down.