The problem comes when they try to make things like heated seats a subscription. Or CarPlay/Android Auto. It’s a slippery slope that is easy to slide down.
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I’ve come to the same conclusion, when I buy something, I like to own it, not rent it from the manufacturer.
The more I get stuck with rental cars with screens everywhere, the more I appreciate my ‘74 Spitfire. The only chips in it are in the radio.
They probably don’t care because they don’t have to. People will line out the door to buy these regardless of build quality - the fanbase is the same type of image-focused people who line up to buy the new iPhone every year. I suspect Tesla would make more of an effort if their build quality started to affect sales.
you misspelled ‘terrible’
Interest rates and total amount paid over the life of the loan are not “reasonably complex”. They are literally written in prominent fonts on the papers you have to sign to purchase a vehicle.
It’s cool how that isn’t even vaguely comparable.
David Tracy is currently cursing his car liquidation project. He could have been a thousandaire!
Holy crap, David Tracy is about to become the richest man in Michigan!
1st Gear: I’ll never drive a car I have to pay a subscription fee to utilize. Full stop, won’t do it. If this catches on in the industry and that means I won’t drive a car manufactured after 2025, or I stick exclusively to budget niche cars going forward, fine. But I flatly refuse to pay an ongoing subscription on my…
Better headline: “Alleged gang member kills pedestrian in street-racing crash”
Why the fuck would you engage in a high speed pursuit on a vehicle with a lo jack?
calling it, police will face no accountability, but the guys who stole the car will get charged with murder.
Yeah.
The Musk-cultists now have a connections board covering half a basement wall, plotting just how Torch, the SEC (both the Securities Exch Comm and the SouthEast Conf.), aliens and Jeff Bezos are ALL colluding just to keep him from making enough money to build his very own planet for the faithful.
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Lol the fuck we do! Tracy’s got like 13 cars and 3 kinda run. Streeter’s cars mostly start but won’t make the trip! I think next in line is Brownell with 4 or 5 cars and 2 aren’t road worthy! At this rate, the guy with the Honda Fit in Brooklyn with the burned out headlight has the ride in the best shape!
Exactly. Who on earth is going to spend 2/3 the cost of a purpose built EV to convert a daily driver the end result of which will be 2/3 the usefulness of either the ICE DD or an actual EV.
OK. So as it happens, there are people out there in the automotive wilderness, crying out like St. John the Baptist, for conversions. In this case, electric conversions.
Everyone’s ignoring the real market: Classics that also happen to have shittier equivalents. This kind of stuff is perfect for a 6 cyl Charger or a smog-choked C3 Corvette or a Porsche 912. An old Aston, part of the appeal and collectability is the engine. Part of the appeal of an old base model Mustang is you can…
A couple of reasons that come to mind:
3rd: I’m a little confused here. Is the position that all labor should be retained, regardless of whether it’s needed, just for the sake of keeping that specific segment of labor?