We have reached a stage of evolution where comfort is no longer a luxury, where in the car industry it became a necessity and a byword for good production.
Recent trends have grown to adapt any car with a certain range of gizmos to make it feel luxurious (to a certain extent), but the buying market is a silly one at that, for this race for luxury has skewed us from the things I (and a couple of people will back me up on this) deem essential for a car to be good.
Allow me to punctuate my statement with a small example. Recently I had a friend going on a car hunt trying to find a decent, well priced, first hand car. His final argument was going to settle for a Cartain coupe on offer on the market. Shocked as I was to see this horrible choice I asked him why, and he retorted without missing a beat: because when you sit in it, it doesn’t feel that bad, it has a nice stereo and the dashboard looks cool! This is where the flaw occurs.
We are blinded by the tiniest amount of tinsel and shiny objects that we forget what a car should essentially do: Drive, and drive well at that!!! The particular model he was talking about I had the pleasure (if we can call it that) to drive and well it was as expected a horrible car, horrible understeer, piss-poor ride quality, noisy cabin, uncomfortable seats…and the list goes on, I did admit the dashboard did look cool, but it was dwarfed by the huge technical flaws this car was ladened with… and they had the upfront nerve to call it a coupe which is an insult to a phenomenal lineage of cars.
The word is this: I agree a nice interior is something that should be available in all cars, but it should not be the be-all end-all of the cars, it should compliment a great chassis and ride rather than try and hide a horrible one. Be smart whenever buying a car it’s not about the mileage or the toys in the cockpit, it’s about the entire car as a huge system that works together harmoniously.
by Joseph Hasbany