They can be, in a completely different way. I'm not denying this. I meant to put it in my post. I've enjoyed some of the cars I have owned but few would I/have I missed when it was time to sell.
I would wager that the average car buyer doesn't give a damn about the involved driving experience and wouldn't know one if it smacked them. Colour size and badge are far more important.
Yes, but at the end of the day, market forces dictate what something's worth, and it's worth around the £3k mark because statistically they last pretty well.
& it'll have to blow quite spectacularly to be that dead.Somehow I doubt Kia will stump up for a new engine if you ran it down the road with no water from the hole in the radiator, or no oil & the light on.
However to try and draw a balanced comparison, it would only be fair to browse through some of the the crash test results of some of the much better known and long established global manufacturers <
AIUI the Landwind was derived from an Isuzu design from the 1980s, when safety standards were very different to what they are now.
Also from what I gather that particular test has been a wake-up call to the Chinese about the standard of vehicle design and construction which is demanded here in the West, especially if they ever expect to make major inroads into our markets.
Apparently it will be at least the beginning of the next decade before they seriously start making an attempt at exporting millions of low cost vehicles.
My own guess that it's going to come whether our manufacturers want it to or not, just as it did with the Japanese in the 1960s.
Incidentally when I was looking around for a replacement vehicle, one of the reasons I plumped for the Ford focus was because the build quality got very good reviews, whereas some of the other vehicles I was interested in, such as 'certain' Peugeot and Skoda models had some rather negative comments made about their flimsy construction, so I gave them a wide berth.
Oh, I know that there are privately owned cars around. It just never occurred to me that some of them might be Vauxhalls. It would be like finding out that someone between the ages of 20 and 70 owns a Ford Ka ...
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