> Quality seems to be decreasing. I found many similar stories
This is a drum that mass media beats every few years because it’s low hanging fruit.
It all comes down to the survivorship bias. In 10 years, we’re going to see a lot of these currently-new cars and admire how many of them are still on the road. In reality, the lemons were weeded out, poorer-selling models were cut and forgotten, and what is left is solidly in the middle of the bathtub curve[0].