Yes, cars now are safer, more reliable and efficient but they are also infinitely boring and merely transportation devices.

现代的汽车确实比较安全可靠，效能也比较高，但是它们也是了无生趣，充其量就只是交通工具罢了。

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Nissan's biggest problem was that it has been making reliable but boring cars, which customers shunned in favour of more attractive Hondas (in Japan) or Volkswagens (in Europe).

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Always reliable but often boring, the new Accord has a more sculpted body this time around.

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Vice-presidents were once expected to be solid and reliable but mostly boring.

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