• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The average price of a new car is 50k.

      The US car industry makes almost no actual cars since sedans and wagons don’t make much money per vehicle.

      The whole fucking industry deserves to go out of business, and the laws that incentivized building trucks needs to go with it.

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            2 days ago

            II absolutely love that multilingual in the language of rant. You deserve more ups than I can give.

            • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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              Why the fuck is the are cars like the golf, 206 etc the size of a Passat from 20ish years ago.

              Why is BMW building a fat front wheel drive called the 2 series.

              Why can’t VAG produce anything quality it doesn’t matter if it’s a Skoda or an Audi they’ve all tuned into low quality shit.

              Why are reasonable midsized cars in Europe now crossover SUV’s?

              Basically it boils down to everything has gotten big, fat, and overpriced have you even seen a Polo?

              Fuck the entire German car industry they’ve betrayed what made people like them to chase trends and extra profits

              And finally fuck me because I own two VW’s and Two BMW’s

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                2 days ago

                I own a Honda Fit. It’s small, is reasonably petrol efficient, has actual dials and physical knobs for an interface, and needs just basic maintenance to run reliably.

                Of course they’ve been discontinued in Canada.

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        And here I am, still thinking anything but sedans are ugly af. SUVs are the most hideous vehicle I’ve ever seen. Ugly and absolutely the worst possible kind of shape.

        Well 2nd worst. Trucks are worse since they tend to be taller. Plus I’ve never met a decent person who owns one of those tall ones. They’re all just chick size competitions, smallest dick finally wins in their eyes. If you absolutely have to have a truck, get one of those Japanese types that are almost as small as a real car that actually has a bed on it.

        Whoever started the trend of trucks getting bigger, taller, and fatter all while the bed is smaller than my tiny cars backseat should actually be executed. How many people are they responsible for killing?

        • EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          17 hours ago

          The reason the trucks keep getting bigger is to meet emissions regulations. Sounds nuts, right? But instead of making them more efficient, they could use a loophole of making them bigger instead, because the law applies in a size vs efficiency ratio, not efficiency by itself.