In the world of automobiles this week there is only one three letter word that can sum up what exactly went down. It was bad.
Watching the snowballing Toyota mess continue to worsen and then Honda comes out with nearly 650,000 vehicle recall for the Fit/Jazz, things just seem to be mucked up pretty good.
The thing about these recalls is that they are for serious matters. If a car company messes up a bit of trim, that peels under heat, that is one thing. It is a total disaster if something as important as the brakes go and the car becomes a two ton metal battering ram. This is not medieval times.
To quote The Big Lebowski: "The goddamn plane has crashed into the mountain!"
It was not too long ago many in the biz were lauding over how cars have come so far and now most cars are reliable. Were we wrong? Cars are torching themselves and carelessly accelerating. This all begs a question...
Are cars really that much better than they used to be?
Originally, I believed that autos had come a long way but all this recall hubbub has me thinking otherwise. Don't get me wrong, there will ALWAYS be recalls. It just seems as of late, things have gotten very bad very fast.
What say you, Spies? We want to know.
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