I rented a new Impala a few years ago. Drove 300 miles to my event one day, back the next. The next day I hurt everywhere.. Of course that was offset by the ringing in my ears from all the road noise I had to endure from that noisy rattle trap.
Almost the same story...I drove a rental Impala from Arlington, VA to north Alabama and back over a five-day period. The interior noise was ridiculous and there’s a stretch up in VA where the interstate is awful bad (I had to pull over every forty miles to stretch).
My impression is that they did very little testing and research...just make something and dump it on the market.
My wife went out and did a lot of research about ten years ago...to buy an Audi TT (way more than I would buy), but they built this with a ton of sound proofing within the car and it’s absolutely quiet. Road handling is a pleasure with no back pain after a five-hour drive. You may end up paying more but it’s better than feeling miserable about your car for six to eight years.