Feeling that the previous car was more durable than the present is a bit like: the steamed buns in my childhood are more fragrant than the current ones.
On the one hand, when I was a child, the steamed bun may really be more solid in the material, and the ingredients used are more natural and delicious.
On the other hand, our brains also play a key role in this.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > cognitive bias</h1>
This phenomenon is actually a cognitive bias, called "rose-colored memory" in psychology, which means that our brains tend to involuntarily beautify past memories, so that memories tend to behave better than they actually are.
Therefore, many friends will be in memory... The first car of the year, Poussin, Jetta, Sail, Kaiyue, Accord, Andy, the quality is much better than now, will have this feeling.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > previously more expensive and more conscientious materials</h1>
However, in addition to cognitive bias, this feeling will also occur because some cars in the past are indeed in terms of materials and processes, and they are really conscience, and the cost is more ruthless.
At that time, the budget was relatively "rich", and we were deeply impressed by the final quality of the finished product.
Take the car around 2000 as an example: at that time, the relatively good sales of family cars on the market, Volkswagen Polo, Buick Sail, the price of 100,000 yuan.
Although the price is not much different from now, 100,000 yuan more than 20 years ago is worth more than 100,000 yuan now.
On the website of the National Bureau of Statistics, "China Statistical Yearbook-2020", there is a data on it.
The domestic industrial producer price index has risen from 303.1 in 2000 to 388.2 in 2019, an increase of about 28%.
In addition, the domestic industrial producer purchasing price index rose from 228.4 in 2000 to 367.2 in 2019, an increase of about 60.8%.
A simple example is: a thing that used to sell 100,000 yuan is now almost 130,000, and the manufacturer used to spend 30,000 yuan to build a car, which is now equivalent to spending more than 48,000.
This and the price rise in life is actually a bit like, tea eggs have changed from the previous 5 cents to now 2 pieces a piece, now a bowl of wontons 15 yuan, no one even said that it is very expensive.
Therefore, even if the car is at the same price, the manufacturer has indeed had more costs to invest in materials, production processes, etc.
The old bottom classic Volkswagen Polo example is good: 2002 Polo, the engine compartment has been equipped with hydraulic struts, that is, you open this, is to hear "Uh" so, just get up.
Up to now, there is only one "um" pole "choked" on top, and it becomes a manual pole.
And because the domestic spare parts suppliers at that time could not keep up, the cost was rich, right? Most of the accessories can only be imported, and they can also be imported.
There are all-aluminum engines imported from Germany, engine computers produced in Italy, air-conditioning compressors made in Japan, and even foot pads, and the foot pads below, which were shipped from Germany.
And at that time, the more advanced production technologies such as cavity wax injection and laser welding have begun to be used.
The high standards of materials and production processes made the car perform very well in quality and durability, leaving a deep impression on us, not only psychological effects.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > the previous vehicle electrical system was relatively small</h1>
In addition, the previous car electrical system is relatively small, but also one of the reasons for our durable impression, the local dialect is "less things that need to be electrified".
Wu Shengde has a paper in the journal "Heilongjiang Transportation Science and Technology" that I share with you, "Diagnosis and Analysis of Several Common Faults in Automotive Electrical Systems".
It has been said that electrical system failures are divided into line failures and electrical equipment failures.
Mechanical wear, loose shedding, aging, degraded performance, short circuit, broken circuit, loose wiring, poor insulation or false ironing, etc., may lead to electrical failure of the vehicle.
Listen to the reasons for a bunch of reasons, is it like a cold?
If you don't sleep well, you may catch a cold, if you wear little clothes, you may catch a cold, and if you are drenched in rain, you may catch a cold, which is very easy to catch a cold. The chance of catching a cold is very high, at least compared to cancer.
One of the big differences between today's cars and the past is that the electrical system has changed a lot.
It's like saying: the previous electric fan is a knob, turning up, middle and low 3 gears, isn't it?
Now the electric fan also has a remote control, as well as a display screen, but also wet air, cold air, soft wind, natural wind, automatic on, automatic off, a moment of large, a moment of small.
Much better, still head following you, the function is more and more, it is more and more easy to break.
A paper published by Ma Fengwei in the journal Heilongjiang Science, shared with you, "Fault Diagnosis and Maintenance of Automotive Electrical Systems".
As mentioned above: In recent years, the update speed of the automotive electrical system has been accelerating, and the system failure rate has also increased greatly.
In fact, now the car feels bad to us, and many of the problems are problems with very small sensors that are energized.
It's just that the previous car didn't have this sensor installed, how could it be broken? You let something that doesn't have to be broken, isn't it? Right?
Coupled with the fact that there were fewer cars in the past, and now there are more cars, once there is a problem with a model, especially the hot-selling model, there is a hit, and there are more people affecting than before, and there are more people who scold than before.
Well, you feel worse quality and more problems.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="42" > buying and using a car, you don't have to compare it with your previous car</h1>
So, in general, it feels that the car was more durable than now, on the one hand, the previous car was originally less, and the price at that time was different from now, and it was indeed richer in terms of material and process costs.
The electrical system that is prone to problems is also relatively simple, and even some cars do not have them, and the quality of the final product does leave us with a deep impression of good quality.
On the other hand, memory is also biased.
From the actual data, whether it is a domestic or foreign brand, the number of problems per hundred cars is declining. In fact, the quality or failure rate and stability are more and more ideal and better.
But the original memory, isn't it? The original fragrant, the first time to touch the steering wheel, the first time to pull out the key to the beloved car... If you can't come back, your memory will be better.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="48" > BMW Brilliance and imported BMW, is there a difference in quality</h1>?
When it comes to quality, many friends also feel that the quality of imports is better than domestic, and now many people still like to buy imports.
Is there a difference in the quality between imported BMWs and domesticALLY produced BMWs? What is the difference?
German imports we do not say, Africa imported BMW and China's domestic BMW, who is stronger?
Imported Mercedes-Benz and domestic Mercedes-Benz, some people say that the material has been replaced, why can it be replaced? And after the change, is it really an impact?
Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi are all domestic, Lexus is not domestic, but in India to open a factory, what are you thinking?
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[1] China Statistical Yearbook-2020.National Bureau of Statistics
WU Shengde. Diagnosis and analysis of several common faults in automotive electrical system[J].Heilongjiang Transportation Science and Technology, 2018.
Ma Fengwei. Fault diagnosis and maintenance of automotive electrical system[J].Heilongjiang Science,2014.