So, VW is selling the cars that in the US that you said they don’t.

When I look at used cars I don’t even look for rust the foot-wells anymore.

I want to agree, but I know people that have been doing this for years without being hit.

It cost nearly the same to make a luxury unit as a stripped down one. Most of the cost is labor. Spend 5 k in fancier materials and get 50k for the unit.

From what I’ve seen it wasn’t specifically a global trade weapon. It was more a side effect of central government planning.

There was just a government program to encourage electric car manufacture to boost local manufacturing. They over saturated the domestic market and are now dumping the cars internationally.

Your trying to make a point but just made a bunch of stuff up.

The a low priced car in Europe is the Dacia Spring at 17k euros approximately 20kUSD . It’s max speed is 80 mph and max range is around 110 miles. Its less expensive than a US car but isn’t cheap.

The 2026 Nissan Sentra is 23.5k. It’s $3.5k more than one of the lowest priced EU cars. This would be a general use car that can be use in nearly all markets of the US.

The average US salary is 66k the average EU salary is 46k. The slightly higher salary would make the 2 cars on average equivalent to US and EU citizen.

Cars are expensive. US and EU cars are on parity with each other, even with Chinese imports.

Low end cars are more expensive then they were decade ago because of safety technology, better materials and higher expectations. Frames are made of multi point precision aluminum with crumple zones instead of steel frame construction. A daily driver today out performs a performance car from 25 years ago.

I am discriminating. it’s yummy and quick.

Whole networks of rebuilt transmission dealers used to exist for the constant need to swap transmissions in older cars. 100k was about the limit for older transmissions as well.

The fact people are complaining that CVT’s last only a 100k says how much the reliability windows has shifted.

You can get a modern car with similar performance.

1965 dodge dart as a muscle car so the V8 package 235 HP Curb weight 1456 kg (3210 lbs) About $2600 depending on package. 0-60 6.9 seconds 1/4 mile in 15.5 second

About 26k in todays cash

Toyota GR86 228HP Curb weight about 2900 pounds RWD

0-60 5.4 14 second quarter mile

Around 30k

What used to be top of the line is now a daily driver.

Sure maybe an inline motor from the 40-50’s with a manual transmission, drum brakes and manual steering was more reliable. Basically an old school farm tractor.

I think you are looking at survivability bias. The old cars left running are reliable, the unreliable ones were scrapped long ago.

Ease of repair is not the same as reliability.

My new cars are toasters. I change the oil, rotate the tires and swap out brake pads. When things go ‘wrong’ they continue to drive. A bad o2 sensor goes into an error state but the car still drives. It doesn’t just stall at each and every stop.

My 2012 nissan blows the doors clean off myold 76/77? pontiac lemans.

In the ~100k I had my Nissan I have not had to rebuild my fuel injection system but in the ~100k I had my mechanically simple Pontiac I had the carb rebuilt 3x times, and it should have been 4. Carb rebuilding was regular maintenance and it pretty much required to have a functional car. That isn’t the constant changing of gaskets required to keep it from dripping oil or blowing smoke.

It had a rock solid 305. It was much more reliable than any of the cars I got in the 80s when the transition happened to computers. I had an engine fall out of my 85 pontiac. It ran so rough in winter it rattled the engine mounting bolts out. I did have to replace the fuel injection system on my mid 90’s GM, but that car pretty reliable.

I got flashback to fixing fucking vacuum leaks. God damn why not just replace ALL the lines , still not it ? FUCK!

I traded a bus and reader that will tell me what is wrong for a chiltons and vacuum system.

I loved being young. I loved the freedom of going where I wanted when I wanted. I loved gas so cheap I would just take a drive to clear my head. The old cars were finicky and required constant attention. They just weren’t build to last more than 10 years.

Yeah man.

Those old cars were dirt cheap for the auto companies to assemble. That is why every environmental and safety regulation was fought tooth and nail.

Swap your own drums for disc brakes, then makes those abs. You can see those prices for aftermarket parts. Now do that for just about everything in a modern car.

They are just far more complex than anything today. There recently made increases are somewhat different, but real costs were increased

Safety and environmental regulations are what’s making new cars expensive compared to inflation. Even without the luxury bump in price.

New cars are also a literal order of magnitude more reliable. Most new cars have spark plug changes at 70k cars from then pretty much needed a full engine rebuild.

Yes. What is legal and acceptable will be different anywhere.

I take the cherry tomatoes and cut them in half, then add a dressing of balsamic vinegar, powered soup base, chicken flavored, olive oil and basil. The leftover taste even better the day after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_Zhui

You can take the plain popcorn and pop it in a microwave in a brown paper lunch sack that is folded over. No need for a one off machine.

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Forget the selfish reason. Just don’t hit people because you can’t control your emotions.

If you won’t hit your boss don’t hit your kid.

It is exceptionally hard for children to be removed for child abuse.

Especially if the mother is the one doing it. It must leave visible marks and be documents by a doctor or a policeman . It needs to show a pattern and be obvious the amount of force was excessive. This needs to happen several times to show a pattern. Must be documented.

That only begins the cps process.

You(only moms?) 100% absolutely can hit your kids so long as you don’t hospitalize them. It fucking sucks to watch from the side .

Evangelicals are the specific exception. Scripture is gods holy word and how he shows them he loves them. it is a physical manifestation of gods love that they can experience anytime.

They take pride in reading and having memorization events. Anything getting in the way of that is SIN.