What car has the best ever build quality?
Discussion
So yesterday, I was asked by my trader pal to ferry him to a garage in a 110k mike e39 diesel. The car owes him about £1000.
I sat in it, remembered how compact cars used to feel and drove off.
Four miles later, my jaw was sat on my knees and I was literally laughing to myself. The car felt like it was carved out of a solid block of “vehicle” - when I hit a bump, nothing moved. The steering, although weighty, was perfectly precise and alive. Every control, although primitive compared to modern designs, had the feel of an installation just completed and happy to go on indefinite duty.
I got into my 2k mile 2017 m4 tonight. I love the M4 but by comparison the steering felt less impressive, and the build quality not even in the same game - never mind ball park. Every hard bump yields a slightly plastic edged sound as things that might be giving evidence of costing less and might be less well installed move together. They’re not rattles, but they are signals that the old car was, for sure, a better made machine.
I don’t know what that makes me feel about the M4 but it does raise the question - what car is the all time build quality king?
(Bonus points can be awarded for experience on the spanners where cars are intelligently constructed making working on them a pleasure - or where the manufacturer of the mainstream vehicle has gone out of its way to overspecify mechanical things that you might have noticed. Doesn’t have to be just interior construction quality)
I sat in it, remembered how compact cars used to feel and drove off.
Four miles later, my jaw was sat on my knees and I was literally laughing to myself. The car felt like it was carved out of a solid block of “vehicle” - when I hit a bump, nothing moved. The steering, although weighty, was perfectly precise and alive. Every control, although primitive compared to modern designs, had the feel of an installation just completed and happy to go on indefinite duty.
I got into my 2k mile 2017 m4 tonight. I love the M4 but by comparison the steering felt less impressive, and the build quality not even in the same game - never mind ball park. Every hard bump yields a slightly plastic edged sound as things that might be giving evidence of costing less and might be less well installed move together. They’re not rattles, but they are signals that the old car was, for sure, a better made machine.
I don’t know what that makes me feel about the M4 but it does raise the question - what car is the all time build quality king?
(Bonus points can be awarded for experience on the spanners where cars are intelligently constructed making working on them a pleasure - or where the manufacturer of the mainstream vehicle has gone out of its way to overspecify mechanical things that you might have noticed. Doesn’t have to be just interior construction quality)
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