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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Oh look, another reason not to buy ~~BMW~~ a CAR

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I'll just sprout wings and fly everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Please do if possible.

Seriously tho, was it so hard to understand that i was pointing out that all big car companies are starting to do this?

If this is a reason not to buy a BMW then its a reason not to buy any modern car. Which it is imo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is a huge number of cars were removed and destroyed which would otherwise have been in the used market. It's a big reason why even used cars are priced so high. Buying used isn't what it used to be.

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

And they want to do it again not because it helped anyone get a car but because it let them make the prices so stupidly high.

I agree that new cars suck but they're removing the stocks of used cars that would be worth buying at any price and at our expense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Agree with that yep, its also already been shown years ago that modding used cars into electric cars is totally doable, economic and saves fuckloads of resources. Same thing happening with tractors too btw. Lots of farmers are buying up old tractors because they can actually repair them on site when they break down. With modern ones they have to wait for some asshole from john deer to come in with a debugging laptop to do the exact same thing for lots of money and downtime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

a NEW car

ftfy then

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

While this is completely true, it's a bit tone-deaf. Fuck cars, but many people barely have a choice because their public transport consists of a handful of busses that come once an hour and nothing is close by.

As an aside, I spend a whopping total of about $1/day (edit Australian $, so less USD) on maintenance and electricity for my electric cargo bike. I go about 17 km each way to work and the funny thing is it's only about 10 mins longer than driving, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine a bus coming once an hour... try only twice a day for the entire county... early morning and late night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

💀 where is this?

.... Re-read before I sent. I thought this said country, lol.

Yikes, why even have a bus at that point?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah i know many people dont really have much of a choice, see the thread nex to your comment. I was more intending to talk shit about modern cars that all seem to have this shit.