Any study using years to calculate a vehicle's useful life is hopelessly retarded from the outset. The useful life of a vehicle is measured in distance traveled. Someone who drives 25,000 miles a year has almost no hope of keeping a car for 12 years. A person who drives 5,000 miles a year can easily keep a car for 25 years.
Someone who drives 25,000 miles a year has almost no hope of keeping a car for 12 years. A person who drives 5,000 miles a year can easily keep a car for 25 years.
How much of that is by design? Because I don't know about you, but I've seen plenty of decades-old vintage cars (that look brand-new) roaming the streets, recently. Say blah-blah about what have-you, and investing time in repairing this-or-that niche of the word-salad to do with manufacturing: but if you care to, you used to be able to make a car last a life-time. Why can't you do that, anymore?
Because I don't know about you, but I've seen plenty of decades-old vintage cars (that look brand-new) roaming the streets, recently
Because, like I said, a car's useful lifetime cannot be measured in years. You can park a fucking Hyundai in the garage for 30 years and it will work fine 30 years from now given some basic maintenance. Drive that fucker 250,000 miles and tell me how it's going.
The classic cars you are seeing today have undoubtedly been rebuilt from the ground up. They're not a testament to how long cars lasted. Did you ever own an actual factory stock car from the '60s or '70s that wasn't rebuilt with better aftermarket parts? They were pieces of shit that broke down constantly. Sure, you could work on them, but why the fuck should you have to in the first place? A lot of people still drive cars that need constant repairs. I think those are the people who romanticize the past. When your car needs hundreds or thousands in repairs every couple of years of course you wish it was easier to work on yourself. I think they don't know there are cars and trucks that can be driven for a decade without ever spending a single fucking cent on repairs.
Sure, you could work on them, but why the fuck should you have to in the first place? A lot of people still drive cars that need constant repairs.
We're diverging in to different arguments. Anyway, my point is that the only thing you can rely on, in this world, is that nothing is permanent. However, the less transient that something can make itself: the better. The fact is: you can repair old cars that came without computer parts easier and better. That's just pure and unadulterated fax, right there. They came, out of the box, easier to repair. My gold-standard example is: the replaceable smartphone battery. It's just an intentional choice to fuck the consumer, for no other reason than profit. They're literally making products shittier, because they know you have no other choice than to buy their shitty products, with a big dumb fucking smile on your face.
What kind of car would you recommend? Mine has been giving me tons of issues and I still have 10k left to pay
True, a lot is by design, especially with electronics
It will change when normie start looking at something that satisfy a need instead of the usual "oooohhhhhh shiny"
Are we screwed ? possibly yes
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