Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec...
by sandworm101 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:41PM
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>> Whatever “partnership” you used to have with your car was cooked up by a talented marketing and sales team
Have you ever listened to county music? Every other song is about a truck. None of them EVER mention rental cars. Rental care are soulless.
Anyone who doesn't recognize some sort of "partnership" with a car either doesn't drive much or has only driven rental cars. Wait until you are in a snowstorm in the mountains, at night, in fog, and you run into an emergency situation. Then all those little features designed by engineers kick in. Things like traction control/ABS, tire design, weigh and balance ... the engineering becomes your partner through a dangerous situation. If you only drive a few miles between an apartment and a office job every morning it is understandable to treat a car as a nothing object. But anyone who has done a multi-day drive covering 1000s of miles, especially across mountains, quickly learns that every model has a unique personality.
When I come home from a long trip or overseas deployment, it isn't always family greeting me at the airport. Often, the first sense of being "home" is retrieving my car out of long-term parking.
Have you ever listened to county music? Every other song is about a truck. None of them EVER mention rental cars. Rental care are soulless.
Anyone who doesn't recognize some sort of "partnership" with a car either doesn't drive much or has only driven rental cars. Wait until you are in a snowstorm in the mountains, at night, in fog, and you run into an emergency situation. Then all those little features designed by engineers kick in. Things like traction control/ABS, tire design, weigh and balance ... the engineering becomes your partner through a dangerous situation. If you only drive a few miles between an apartment and a office job every morning it is understandable to treat a car as a nothing object. But anyone who has done a multi-day drive covering 1000s of miles, especially across mountains, quickly learns that every model has a unique personality.
When I come home from a long trip or overseas deployment, it isn't always family greeting me at the airport. Often, the first sense of being "home" is retrieving my car out of long-term parking.