I can’t believe that Ford is going to recall 128,000 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milans about having issues with the wheels falling off. Why don’t car makers simply do long-term brutal testing on a bunch of cars before they make the public the testing guinea pigs? Who the hell wants to be driving down the road and have their wheel falls off? They should give a group of cars that they plan on making to a bunch of hoodlums and have them drive these cars into the ground to find out what breaks. Then after these people break stuff on the cars, re-engineer the broken items so that they can’t easily be broken.
I mean in the case of the wheels falling off, they say that the bolts holding the wheels can fracture causing a vibration. Well, if bolts from cars made in past didn’t fracture, why didn’t they just leave well enough alone and continue to keep making the wheel assemblies the same as years past? If something isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
Car makers are spreading themselves too thin nowadays. They try to make too many different models to try to keep everyone happy. Why can’t car makers just make a handful of models and be good at making those? For example, look at the latest Merecedes-Benz models available today. They have like 35+ different models of vehicles they are cranking out right now. How on earth could you manage to be good at making so many different models? Compare to how many models they made in the 1980′s and 1990′s. The models they built in the 1990′s were built like tanks and were built to last. Then in the mid 2000′s they decided to go nuts making all of these different models and the quality suffered. Remember reading about how many problems per 100 cars Mercedes was having? Their cars were becoming so unreliable after all of this huge expansion.
Car makers need to stop trying to be so greedy. Look at Audi, for example. Go to an Audi dealer and they only have a small amount of models to pick from. And they don’t flood the market with vehicles in the US the way BMW and Mercedes is doing. You see tons of BMW’s and Mercedes on the roads compared to how many Audi’s that you see. The same with Chevrolet. Look how many Corvettes you see on the road. WAY TOO MANY. They should make a limited production of these cars to keep their value up. I hardly ever see an Audi R8 on the road compared to all of the Corvettes I see. You have more of a head-turner going down the road if you don’t drive something that every Tom, Dick and Harry has.
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