Better Engineered Car - What does it mean?

[xninjax]

We keep seeing this term on car reviews and on this forum but what does it really mean?

What are the criteria to say a car is engineered in a better way?

[dr. d]

We keep seeing this term on car reviews and on this forum but what does it really mean?

What are the criteria to say a car is engineered in a better way?

it's an advertising gimmick!
and the buying public is supposed to filll in the blanks.
but every critic also knows, better engineered may also mean, "better engineered to fail...". heh heh.

i remember in the 60s, the MB ad goes, "..the world's best engineer's car..". which, to me, at that tender age of gullibility, was credible, because the germans then, "engineered everything to death"..

[oliver1013]

O yung term na over engineered, I often see this term in car reviews in magazines or youtube videos, made by journalists.

Pero napaisip na rin ako netong term na to e. Does it refer to tibay, or hi techness?

[dr. d]

O yung term na over engineered, I often see this term in car reviews in magazines or youtube videos, made by journalists.

Pero napaisip na rin ako netong term na to e. Does it refer to tibay, or hi techness?

again, an advertising gimmick.
but to me, it can also mean, it's too expensive for what it does.

actually, it's a nice advertising gimmick, because even seasoned motoring journalists fall prey to using them to the advantage of the car seller.

but think a while... how would anyone know if it was over-engineered? either you designed it yourself, or you took it apart... heh heh.

[Walter]

^^^ You'll know after 20 years of owning the car.

[jut703]

Basically how well the parts were put together - i.e. Matibay.

Synonymous to build quality in layman's terms if you ask me.


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[oliver1013]

Or there are parts not necessarily needed but its there..

[xninjax]

Basically how well the parts were put together - i.e. Matibay.
Synonymous to build quality in layman's terms if you ask me.
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If that's the case then an altis should be the better engineered car compared to a focus... But we always see comments the other way around

[viper888]

If that's the case then an altis should be the better engineered car compared to a focus... But we always see comments the other way around

On the flipside:
The Focus was better engineered because there was more effort put in the design and the engineering of the car with an all new transmission, an all new range of engines, and all sorts of electronic gadgetry whereas the Altis soldiers on with the same engine and its only major advancement is in its CVT transmission.

[jut703]

If that's the case then an altis should be the better engineered car compared to a focus... But we always see comments the other way around

I wouldn't call the DCT of the Focus (or any mainstream Ford) as well-engineereed. Sure it's high-tech, but also very jittery.

Ambitious, yes, but I would say that the Altis' creamy smooth but responsive CVT is the better-engineered transmission between the two.


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[monty_GTV]

imo, if its used by consumers for longest time then its a better engineered car. its about reliability, long service life.

[cardict]

For me ,it's durability,how long your car will serve you with less/ no big time trouble ,look at those ww2 army jeeps

[_Cathy_]

imo, if its used by consumers for longest time then its a better engineered car. its about reliability, long service life.

Toyota AE101?

[viper888]

Lexus probably makes the best engineered cars today in my opiniom and Mercedes lost it in the early 2000s fiasco.


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[jick.cejoco]

Serviceability wise, engineering and quality ford sucks if you were to ask me. They had the twin I-beam front suspension (the worst the world has ever known), they had the fuel tanks in the trunk strapped above the floor in the trunk only separated the occupants by the flammable seat back cushion to name a few. And the squeakiest suspension you can hear a mile away


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