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[–] crankypants15 ago  (edited ago)

My dad used to work for a F500 automobile maker, and he worked with marketers and engineers on a regular basis, mainly to ask why a particular model was so fucked up, and to have a good laugh. Here's what happens when a new car body is designed. The marketing dept designs the body you see. The marketing department says "Fit all these features in this body", and the engineers have to do it. So, basically the marketers are responsible for your spark plugs being a PITA to change. Hence the longer time to change spark plugs, and higher charge for some cars.

The US auto companies used to use something like 600+ different fasteners on a single model! I think they got it down to 400 different fasteners. There's a lot of nepotism in the US auto industry, and that's one reason why the cars are more expensive.