We’ll said Riwls, too many older people are Badge Bunnies, who equate certain badges as quality regardless of the actual situation.
You are quite right that the world is changing and those who generate the most sales, the younger professionals, have a completely different attitude to the cars they drive. Add to that the salary sacrifice programmes, where the user leases the car based on the least amount of tax, then,mtge shiny BMW and Mercedes and Audis are being replaced with Kia’s, Hyundais, and VW/Seat/Skodas.
if people look on the internet, the myth of German quality has been exposed, not from those auto magazines who rely on advertising revenue from certain German manufacturers, but other places including financial, jd power and many more, the German quality myth is exposed.
As for the Ariya, the reviews I’ve seen don’t agree with the original comments on this post, but rate it very well