I don't think the Americans have built decent cars or trucks in ages. They all either look like kiddy cars with ghastly interiors (yes, even the Corvette), or are a great grinning mass of fake chrome grill and lights intended to frighten any perceived competition off the road. It's all big car, small willy stuff in the case of the majority of SUV's like this one. Panel fit and alignment is appalling. Instrumentation is ghastly, unreadable and lacking any ergonomic layout. Cup-holders rule. Engineering sophistication is totally lacking. Cubic inches in big lumps of iron still matter and are about as sophisticated as sack full of hammers. To look at a Honda motor which is built like a watch next to a dumb, inefficient, heavy lump of Yank iron is a lesson in itself. Handling, in the main, is as bad as everything else one comes to expect on first approaching the car from outside, with very few exceptions. The new Corvette handling is reputedly good but it is hardly a run-of-the mill car, so it bloody well should be. I have no idea where the designers get their inspiration from, if that is what it can be called. The fact that they continue to produce total crap, and dangerous crap to boot, is still to dawn on them as the reason the Japanese, German and Korean cars have virtually driven them off the road and Detroit to the wall. Long may it continue to happen until some people there in Detroit and other auto manufacturing centres see sense.
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