Oh, I have no qualms with my car at all - I actually special ordered it, so it’s exactly what I wanted (bar a couple options that only became available with the next model year). I just hate the idea that if I do decide to change things up, options for something I like just become less and less.

For now…I’m fearing I’ll have to hang onto my IS for the foreseeable future if they bungle the new one up.

Ran into the same kind of issues when I was a service advisor working for Mazda. When they started building the 3 sedan there, quality started dropping on those cars, and Mazda even had service bulletins specific to MX built cars. This is also true of when I was younger and worked at a Honda dealer when second gen Fits were released, since they started to be produced there for North America - much poorer QC. To this day, I’ll never recommend someone to buy an MX built car if there is the option to purchase the same vehicle built elsewhere.