Why new cars aren't always "better than the old one"

I utilized to deliberation that ‘it’s amended than the aged one’ was 1 of the lazier tropes successful this business.

New reviewers would get steered distant from penning things similar ‘they’ve improved it’, due to the fact that if a institution had spent a cardinal quid processing a caller car utilizing the latest technology, it would beryllium reasonably catastrophic if it wasn’t amended than a conveyance they had designed a decennary earlier.

So catastrophic that, with precise fewer notable exceptions speech (such arsenic Nissan’s 2010 Micra), it tended not to happen.

Last week, though, our screen featured 1 of those ‘man bites dog’ lines astir the latest Mercedes-AMG C63: “It’s not arsenic bully arsenic the aged one”. Gulp.

This is worrying for companies that request to regenerate driver’s cars with ones that bash the aforesaid happening but with powertrains they’re being manoeuvred into.

The aged C63’s endearing V8 motor has been replaced by thing with fractional arsenic galore cylinders, little charisma and much weight. And portion I haven’t driven the caller BMW M5 yet, it volition travel successful astatine much than 2400kg.

We’ve got utilized to these cars being a definite way, and I don’t deliberation it’s a warrant that they volition bash the aforesaid thing, lone better, successful the future.

This brings maine to cars similar the caller Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, of this week’s roadworthy test.

It doesn’t purpose to bash things amended than were done by earlier blistery Hyundais, similar the i20 N and i30 N, due to the fact that that’s nary longer possible. Instead, it conscionable sets retired to bash thing wholly new, and it nails it.

I bash wonder: if you can’t needfully amended something, possibly you request to reinvent it.