- Make car dependant infrastructure for every single city or town
- Refuse to innovate, build only "luxury" models
- ????
- Profit
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Similarly with housing. Why make cheap starter homes when you can make so much more with “Luxury” homes and condos.
And yet use the same cheap materials in the "luxury" ones that you would have used in the cheap ones anyway!
I follow some home inspectors who post videos from their new home inspections, and holy crap the things they find are ridiculous. Like, construction companies should lose their licenses bad.
I visit some partially built homes from time to time, and recently saw one just after it had been inspected. On one wall, on the insulation, the inspector had scrawled STUD? In red felt.
The stud was completely missing from the wall. It was just an empty frame filled with insulation. You’d think someone would have noticed earlier during construction, but obviously the actual contractor had just let the day labor go to town and never bothered to review their work before inspection.
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lol, that is 100% every australian apartment built in the last 15 years. the window frames are plastic and the cladding is combustible... but it's got Italian tiles and "European appliances" so it's an "executive suite". that will be $1.5million fuck you very much.
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- Force you to rent an apartment
- Refuse to build anything affordable, only "luxury" models
- ???
- Profit
Don't forget the government cutting funding for affordable housing projects.
Amateur hour, my government funds 'affordable' housing projects that cost 300 grand and immediately turn into overpriced rentals.
At least housing is actually being built, but I know what you mean. Theres no real affordable housing near me and the wait list for what little is available has been closed due to budget cuts.
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- Capitalism
- ???
- Planetary Doom
Thanks to the invention of debt, we can continue taking from the poor what they don’t even have!
They do have it. It's the value they generate while working. That's what we've always taken, regardless of the exact financial tool used.
Sorry I didn't get that, did you say you wanted an even larger pickup truck?
Can you jack up the front so I can't see and put a bar on it so I can kill anyone I hit? Thanks.
We're way ahead of you! Our engineers have worked tirelessly to come up with an extra flat front that maximises impact with unsuspecting pedestrians
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- Cede sedans to Japanese car companies.
Even they aren't selling them as much in the US any more. You don't really see many new Accords or Camrys any more, you see CR-Vs and Rav4s.
- Dogmatically sticking to fossil fuels.
- "Protecting" domestic manufacturering jobs by refusing to engage with your neighbours.
- Using tariffs to keep out affordable Chinese EVs that use tech everyone will probably be using in 15 to 20 years.
Sounds like a recipe for disaster. You can only artificially prop up your domestic market for so long. You'll inevitably fall behind even further on innovation with this approach.
Might be the first to make a CoPilot or ChatGPT powered car though.
Look, the Chinese EVs are a literal trade weapon. The other points I agree on. But China has subsidies on EVs even when sold to other countries because they aim to put competitors out of business globally. Otherwise they'd just be subsidizing EVs for domestic use.
So I can't blame them for tariffing those. But the solution is to invest heavily in domestic EVs, not to keep running with internal combustion...
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I saw something about being approved for "up to 100k" for a car loan. 100k for a car? Man, this country is fucked.
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.
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Trump tariffs combined with the policy to 'make in America and buy American' is going as well as predicted then.
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As soon as someone releases a small electric pickup truck, I'm grabbing one and holding on to it as long as possible. It's gotta have LFP batteries, though. Those last a long time.
Slate is making one that should be out in 2027. Ford was supposed to be planning one, but considering how they’ve been flailing, i doubt we will ever see it.
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I'm on the same boat, though I have a lot more requirements on what I want that electric truck to NOT include. I want a proper work truck that's user serviceable - not a computer on wheels. Untill that, I'll stick with my -07 diesel Navara.
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Tbh i don't think i will ever buy a new car. New doesn't even mean "good" or "reliable" at this point, just a warranty and that they don't know for sure what or how much is going to break in 10K miles. Its literally paying more to be a beta tester.
At least after a couple years third party techs have mostly figured out where the manufacturer cheaped out and how to fix it for less than the dealership wants.
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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.
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hugs Civic si
you'll get all the motors and transmissions you need, widdle guy.
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Paying massive tariffs could be part of the problem.
Similar to how China let Tesla in to force its domestic market to compete (Which now makes the best EV's in the world) America should do the same. Let BYD or Xiaomi sell cars in the states, Musk and co. can then compete or lose to the Chinese. With musk's close ties to the admin I doubt this will happen.
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Most American cars are made outside of the USA, and most countries that supply cars and parts and under tariffs from King Dingus so yeah, cars are fucking expensive NOW. They were already trending higher.
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Hurray! The GDP is saved!
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.
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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.
Well you need to BE SAFE and walking is SCARY.
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The 1965 dodge dart cost $2153 when it released. That's $22,004.55 according to an inflation calculator I found online. The dart is a badass car, imaging bying a sick muscle car today for less than 25 grand.
The charger 2 door, which is the closest dodge comparable to the dart. It starts at $54,995. Over double.
I realize dodge's sales model is different and the market itself likely couldn't be compared. But how the hell are we paying over double for vehicles that fit similar market slots? We are so fucked.
Edit: Dodgers to Dodge's. Seriously autocorrect just doesn't work.
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A literal decade late on that headline, good work CNN!
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.
Unsustainable grift is unsustainable? Wow I'm shocked.
Mass transit systems yet? No? Okay, I'll check back in a decade after this problem has gotten substantially worse.
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