Bull.
If ya trust Chong's partner "designing" $8 MSRP knockoff tie rods or control arms at the China Institute of Applied Engineering is any more attentive and work-ethical-like than ol' Cheech, well, damn...
The only guys there putting in any thought are the cost cutter materials guys whittling unit price down to below $1, so as to make a couple bucks after packaging, logistics, and vendors' margins. And they ain't putting safety before profitability.
Good engineers pull 6 figures, ANYWHERE. You realize how many hundreds of thousands of units they gotta ship with their couple bucks per unit margins before they can AFFORD just one competent guy??? Cuz guess what, investors owners and landlords ain't waiting around in the back of the line to get paid...
Not butchered.
It just takes up space. With a hard solid object, space that aint DESIGNED to be taken up at all, much less with something hard and durable when they conduct crash tests on unmodified vehicle prototypes.
You better believe someone crashes it hard enough, a cab's or cop car's partition will break the rear passenger's kneecaps. And worse.
