Hurray! The GDP is saved!
hugs Civic si
you’ll get all the motors and transmissions you need, widdle guy.
My last car was a civic si. It was a great car.
I just want a small car I can work on myself. 30 years ago, I could maintain my own car, do some shadetree mechanics…
But all cars today are meant to be black boxes. All need proprietary tools and computers to do almost anything.
Dear Santa, could I have a 67 camaro.
I’m still chugging along doing maintenance but yeah it’s getting ridiculous. Just as a metric: service manual length.
My motorcycles: ~800 pages
My 2010: ~1800 pages
My 2016: ~13500 pages
I fear to see a more modern vehicle. I don’t own anything newer.
A lot of the page increase is all the diagnostic code debugging. Modern vehicles have way too many computers.
I have an electric golf cart that I can take on any roads 35 mph or lower, I’m saving for a lithium upgrade so I can go farther than 15 miles round trip. I had my last vehicle stolen when cars were not available at the beginning of COVID. I bought a mini van to replace it, it cost twice what I wanted to pay but I have to have a good vehicle for the family and a sedan just wasn’t realistic. Luckily insurance also paid out over twice what my stolen vehicle originally cost me because of the market at the time. I love my mini van but I usually only drive it once or twice a week, most of my daily trips are in the golf cart.
Cars from the late 80s and early 90s are still fine today if produced; relatively safe, good fuel economy, air-conditioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(fourth_generation)
Heck, 4/5 people would be happy with a side by side ATV as a form of transportation in urban/suburban areas. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/cheapest-utility-side-by-sides/
A golf cart is suitable for at least 50% of people currently driving in cities, as the majority of small cars are just grocery getters. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/cheapest-utility-side-by-sides/
Something is fundamentally wrong with the transportation; size, power, cost of cars.
I’m told that Americans only want big expensive cars but for some reason the government felt the need to slap 100% tariffs on small inexpensive Chinese cars.
Because Chinese cars are priced at a loss to corner the market and put competition out of business.
Meanwhile VW and other manufacturers make smaller more affordable cars, but they don’t sell them here.
For some reason most of America decided that they needed a massive truck or SUV that could haul a semi trailer yet their needs 99.9% of the time are short trips and buying groceries.
Something about companies lobbying for less tax on huge cars.
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Well you need to BE SAFE and walking is SCARY.
my car is not reliable enough to justify keeping it anymore, and i chose to buy a honda ruckus instead of a new vehicle simply bc we cant afford the payments or potential repairs on 2 cars anymore. it is working because my partner works from home so we can get by with one car, and i do as much commuting on my ruckus as i can.
I wish I lived somewhere I could daily a scooter. I have a small collection of old Honda scooters I managed to snag off of marketplace just before covid/Trump made everything whack expensive. They spend most of the year in the shed because there’s either a foot of snow on the ground or I’m traveling for work.
I recommend getting an upgraded seat for that ruckus because the stock one in my opinion is pretty rough. They also make some neat bags that fit in the under seat area.
Unsustainable grift is unsustainable? Wow I’m shocked.
Paying massive tariffs could be part of the problem.
Step 1: oligopoly. Step 2: Make less stuff, make it worse, and make it more expensive. Step 3: Use the wealth hoarded that way to make it easier to become a monopoly.
You should try not tariffs.
Car prices were on the rise long before the tarrif crap. Yes the tariffs continue to make it worse, but this was a trend already! As long as people are willing to pay 50 grand for a rav4 with leather seats they will continue to pump their numbers up. I know VERY few people that drove a car more than 10 years old, their afraid it will break down on them when the reality is their newest 700$ /mo POS techno trash on wheels will be dead long before my 87 gives up the ghost.
The symbol for this is the run down ranch houses near me that look like dumps but they have a $70K truck in front.
A literal decade late on that headline, good work CNN!
Trump tariffs combined with the policy to ‘make in America and buy American’ is going as well as predicted then.
Except American cars still source more than half of their parts outside the country. On top of that they are made far worse than foreign cars.
All hail the supreme leader Trump. Yes, he maybe a pedo, rapist and multiple convicted felon, as well as a failed businessman, but he really represents the American dream…
Sometimes I just want a car with power windows. That’s it. I’ll Putin my own deck and call it a day.
I don’t need a zillion sensors worth 1k a piece and all that bullshit.
Now make me a 15k car which is brand new.
