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Originally Posted by Oracle12345
The technology behind the drivetrains is evolving and getting better but everything else about the production of todays cars is much cheaper using plastic to make parts that were metal, using glue to hold a car together instead of welding(bmw).
Gluing a frame together, making fenders out of plastic are all methods to reduce the life of a car since most customers today dont care about longevity, they care mostly about a solid drivetrain to get them to point A to point B. I realize that gluing frames togethers and making parts such as fenders out of plastic are to be seen as technoloigical advances since the plastics and glues they are making are supposed to be better than using metal and welding. But at the end of the day the cars of today are tin cans compared to the older cars in terms of build qauilty.
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I don't know about any gluing. I thought only Tata Motors did that. Anyway, on modern cars usually only the bumpers are made of plastic. Certainly none of our cars including my wife's new RAV4 has plastic fenders. And even if they did, so what. At least plastic doesn't rust. The truth is, the newer cars are generally much safer in a collision than the older ones. Most old cars don't even have side airbags and were not designed for serious T-bone accidents. If you don't believe me, look up some crash test results online. Sometimes it just helps to admit the truth. While the newer cars are certainly more complicated and more things can go wrong, and maybe their styling is not as appealing to you which is subjective, they're better in just about every other way.