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MMD said:
Here's a few.
Stuupid POS Ford Explorer was delivered to me WITHOUT A FKKN CLEARCOAT! 
Friends __EXTREME LUXURY__ Cadillac had a glove compartment like this: a hole in the dash, slanting away at knee level, WITH A FLAP covering it.
Same Cadillac had "Chrome trim" which you rubbed your bare finger on and it scratched! Scratched; BAD!
Fkkn GM POS automatically locked my wife out of her car, almost in the middle of nowhere, with the KEYS IN THE IGNITION!
POS Mazda Tribute had AC intake right under hood so engine fumes became part of the interior air.
Stupid rubber bumpers around doors of ford product POP OFF and bounce into the urban distance if you rub them or touch them.
Woman at Tennis Club in her cadillac (which she hated!) had an orthopaedic cushion on the seat because the seat hurt her __HEALTHY_ back. Meaning: seat in the "luxury Cadillac" was the same cheap POS found in a cheaper model GM.
Too numerous to mention, many have been forgotten.
The working principle is this:
GM/Ford etc KNOW their customers admire status cars like BMW and MB. GM/Fd also know their typical customers can't tell the difference between a BMW and a GM or Ford quality wise.
Therefore GM and Ford can and plan to build crappy cars because their __LOYAL__ customers will not perceive the crappiness they put into them. Loyal customers will pay nearly the same amount as a comparable BMW costs and think they got a great deal! What they paid for is TOTAL bling of cheap but sparkly materials, crummy but soft leather, stuff like a glove compartment which is _stone age_ compared to BMW but they don't care about glove compartment inaccessibility design because they're not bright enough to expect more.
It's that simple!!
There's 500 more observations but I ain't got time now... .
Those are the types of quality issues you're rambling on??
How scientific and objective...
Thanks for so perfectly proving and illustrating my main point from my previous post...
BTW, my wife thinks the sport seats my my 997S suck.... Does that mean they must really truly suck? Or is her idea of a good seat akin to a living-room sofa?
Door bumpers share that same basic cone-through-hole design used by virtually every other automobile maker on the planet
Some who-knows-how-old-Explorer that ostensibly "missed" the clear coat on the assembly line? Even if it were true, how random is that? And how is that more of a bitch than frequest RMS failures?
The door-lock key-fob system on my 997 is schizoid at best, randomly deciding to not work and forcing me to use the key in the door, and then the alarm goes off... No biggie, I live with it. The system in my 993 was the worst I had ever owned, conceived by a monkey with a learning disability...
Most every car pulls it's air off the cowl... If you didn't know, that area is a vacuum, the air sucks down off the windshield into the cowl, not the opposite direction. My dad's best friend's Bentley pulls it's a/c from the cowl, under the rear-edge of the hood.
And a Porsche fan.., complaining about interior storage? Wow...
I expected something more substantial....
Let's just agree to disagree... I'm not trying to argue that U.S. vehicles are "better" than others... Besides, it's a complex as hell subject..
I'm just saying it appears that you're predisposed... Unwilling to talk current-state-of-affairs without prior and extreme prejudice.
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