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Originally Posted by LizardOfBodom
Funny you should say that, as it was literally the first thing I thought after 5 mins of driving my V50 after I bought it. I remember going onto motorway and wondering why everything creaks and rattles a bit, comparing to my prev gen 2003 S40 that didnt even hint a squeak...
too much (cheap) plastic I guess?...
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I'm guessing most of the cost when new on the older cars would be higher quality materials and time to put together etc.
On these and newer cars I imagine the cost of them is mostly spent on electronic/software engineers designing all the crap in them.
Every iteration it seems the price goes up due to the technology inside and they save money on mechanical/material parts to bring it to market at a 'marketable' price.
The new (2014+) XC90 has over 130 different modules inside and the main software controlling it is over 12GB in size. When you consider Windows 10 is less than that and is a complete OS.....It's a bit crazy.
The software list for it on ViDA last time I looked was insane....