Are today's cars worse than before? Why were there so few cars with problems in the past?

Many people feel that today’s cars always have problems here or there. Is it that the automotive industry is increasingly cutting corners? In the past, cars could be driven for ten or eight years without any major problems, but now cars may have problems before they even hit the road. Is this really the case?

Are today's cars worse than before?

In fact, many friends have the wrong concept that the quality of cars in the past was good. I once had a friend who used the fact that there was no recall of cars in the past as an excuse for the good quality of cars in the past? In fact, does not recall mean that the quality of cars is good? Not recalling a certain regional market is actually equivalent to not paying attention to the regional market! For example, in the past, a certain car brand recalled vehicles worldwide, but did not recall vehicles in our domestic market. Could it be that the quality of our domestic cars is better? In fact, it’s just that they didn’t take our domestic car market seriously. It’s not that there is no problem, it’s just that there is no recall! So the quality of cars in the past was not as good as it is now!

Why were there so few problem cars in the past?

The situation in the past was that the number of cars was very small, information was blocked, and there were almost no private cars, so even if a car fell apart, it was difficult to spread the news. It was not that there was no problem, but you just didn't know about it. Secondly, most vehicles were official cars or unit cars, not private cars, so no one cared about good or bad quality. Private cars always broke down or had scratches, and the owners felt distressed, but for those unit cars, few people cared about them. Today, the number of cars has increased dramatically, and private cars still account for the majority. Cars have become private property, so we pay much more attention to cars. In the past, no one cared if a car fell apart, but nowadays, even if a piece of paint falls off, people can't stand it.

Why do many old drivers think that cars were better in the past?

Some experienced drivers think that cars in the past could be used for more than ten years and their quality was very good. That was because cars in the past drove slowly and did not run many kilometers a year. Today's cars can easily run hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and with the well-developed transportation, many cars travel day and night in every corner of cities, and the people who drive them never stop, such as taxis and long-distance freight trucks. If the vehicles of the past were put into use today, the results would be self-evident.

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In fact, the quality of today's cars is much better than that of old cars.

JD Power has a data that from 2000 to 2017, the number of problems per 100 vehicles of foreign automobile brands decreased from 438 to 125, and the number of problems per 100 vehicles of my country's own brands also decreased from 834 to 112, which is a rapid improvement.