In regards to Ford's Powershift, I mean Powershudder, I mean Powershit, even the Ford exec's knew that the transmission would have issues in their cars, and yet they still went on and sold it to customers anyway. And isn't Gertrag (or was it Tremec?) a Chinese-based company now? I heard some horror stories about the manual transmissions in the Mustang.
Also, Subaru did also increase the warranty on their CVTs on some of their older cars, to 10 years/100k miles, although Subaru didn't recall the cars for that yet, as people have noticed issues with them. Heck, even the CVTs in Mitsubishi's cars, even though the brand is considered the dollar store of cars now, and the cars themselves, despite being outdated, are rock solid reliable. And in regards to the HP and torque limits on Nissan's CVTs, even their smaller cars in the Versa and Sentra would have CVT issues down the line, leading to the same nasty failures like in their bigger cars in the Altima and Rogue.
Heck, even Audi had CVTs in their cars at one point, but thankfully had a moment of clarity and did away with them.
Going back to cars though, I also don't like how LED headlights and other types of fancy lights are now common-place on cars, and halogens are slowly getting phased out. Yes, the LEDs could last longer, but they are a much bigger pain to replace once they fail, and at least halogen bulbs are straightforward to replace, for the most part.
