Judging the entire industry of a federation just because you bought a shitty car is not good. Most of the factories there are owned by different corporations and private industries. The quality of a single car can not speak for all the cars, or everything else there

Edit: and the houses are like cardboard boxes because they need to be as cheap as they can to be rebuilt as fast as possible, because of the environmental conditions there. And they can't just make concrete houses as that would have a minimal effect of protection. Just look at Florida.