[woodbutcher]

Oh come on!

I flew a Q Model 310 all over the country.

The same airplane for 23 years.

That after having owned several of the "perfect" airplanes.

I don't know anything about the singles, but that 310 was absolutely the most reliable airplane I had in 40 years.

No, the sheet metal was not perfect. The seats were hard. The upholstery was cheap, but it was a great airplane.

[Spktyr]

I'm talking about their singles. Their singles are flying piles, IMHO.

When Cessna started making the 172 again after that long hiatus, they didn't improve the design. They still used the same fire-prone wiring harness, still used the same archaic instruments, still didn't put an anticorrosion coat on a number of parts - and then charged an absurd amount of money for it.