The first ever noggin I went to, years ago, I was the youngest person there by years, probably decades! Pretty well all of the old fellas there looked as though they could have stripped and rebuilt their car at the side of the road and fixed any issue at all.
The (relative) simplicity of the trad design, honed and fettled over many decades to an acceptable level of mediocrity, is generally accepted, I would suggest, to be about as good as it can be. They were rubbish when new, I've had a couple of new ones! A pre loved car that has had its issues sorted has always been a better proposition in my opinion.
The factory are just about capable of building acceptable trad cars, they've had plenty of practice though. The (dwindling) network of dealers and specialists have got the factory out of the sh!t countless times over the decades.
The factory are not capable of building anything else other than trad cars.
They have grand aspirations to be a big time sports car builder. They are not now, have never been and will never be.
I really want the factory to succeed, I'd love them to keep building cars well into the future. More complexity is not the way though when you have a limited design and development budget and only the parts bins of the big guys to choose from.
