Honda HRV. Can’t unsee it…

Then definitely use the shit out of it!!

I laugh when people say that the NA is more reliable then say 190hp is perfectly adequate when the 229hp is barely that much more when the 190hp is achieved by wringing the ever living shit out of the NA to merge onto the highway when the turbo achieves that without even breaking a sweat because it has something like 70% more torque.

As with any first generation iteration for both design and production, use the shit out of it. You want to discover problems early on so they can get warrantied.

I’m about as big a Mazda fan as any if you guys have read my posts. I’m constantly defending them where it matters. But this article’s a big load of fluff. There are no artisans with robes and hair buns lovingly assembling the car or hand crafting an inspection guide sheet in the QC Dept.

They’re a mass manufacturing car company like any other. I’ve engineered mass manufacturing components for commercial industry that involved tens of thousands of components a year, consumer that’s millions of components, and medtech that makes implants for a single person. It’s all the same. There are a set of regulations and guidelines and if you do your job right, they will all statistically come out according to spec.

Where it always goes wrong is leadership driving things the right way for the bottom line.