Tesla famously has plastic suspension held together by zip ties
but Chinese Ultra-Luxury brand Maextro has plastic BRAKE PEDAL that broke THREE TIMES IN A ROW during independent 3rd party testing:
i don’t know who needs to hear this but quality of a car is not measured by how loud the V8 is, nor by how fast 0-60 is, nor by how expensive the leather on the dash is. none of those things matter when your brake pedal and suspension are made out of plastic that self destructs.
this is why i like to look at metrics like DRIVER FATALITY RATE of vehicle that measure ACTUAL quality of the car, not the marketing BS that Chinks and Elon are good at.
granted, the car itself is only part of driver fatality rate - the demographic that drives that car is equally if not more important. people who drive high fatality rate vehicles whether it is sports cars like Corvette / Porsche 911 or econoboxes like Kia Soul are all idiots. high income, high testosterone idiots versus low income, low testosterone idiots but idiots none the less.
by contrast people who drive BMW X7 ( zero fatality rate ) are not idiots. they are successful young parents. they aren’t retarded like people who drive Kia Soul nor are they psychos like people who drive Camaro. this obviously contributes to the zero fatality rate.
i am not saying everybody should get a BMW X7 but i think it is useful to have that picture of a large German SUV as an ideal that you can strive toward as an objectively good car. then depending on your budget and how much of an idiot you are you will be able to get closer or not very close at all.