• Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    No, you don’t want a car like those old ones. Changing/filing points and distributor cap every 6 months, spark plugs and wires every year. All for a car that was scrap at 100,000 miles no matter what you did.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      I think a lot of people don’t realize how much more work owning and maintaining a car used to be, or how they’ve gone up in price much slower than inflation.

      Part of it is model creep where a budget/economy model of 1990 retains its name in future generations until it’s a larger luxury flagship: the Camry, Corolla, Accord, Civic, F-150, Altima, etc., are all much larger, more powerful, and just loaded with features, and no longer occupy the same spot in their companies’ lineups.

      And the simple comparison of objective performance and efficiency metrics also shows that cars have much higher 0-60 times, tighter cornering characteristics, better fuel efficiency, plus significantly improved crash/safety performance. And the cars routinely last beyond 100,000 miles, when older cars weren’t (to the point where the 6-digit odometer didn’t become standard until the early 90’s).

      Meanwhile, the actual sticker prices of cars today are generally below what would be expected from just applying the inflation rate to car prices from the 90’s.

      Cars today are just so much better than they were when I first started driving.

    • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      That’s exactly why I would want a car like that. I can maintain/repair going forward. Why pay over sixty grand for a vehicle that will still be crap at a hundred thousand miles at the end of the day. All so I can parallel park a bit easier? Parallel parking is easy, just takes a bit of practice.

      • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
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        1 day ago

        All so I can parallel park a bit easier? Parallel parking is easy, just takes a bit of practice.

        Yes, the only difference between old cars and new ones is parallel parking automation. Literally the only reason anyone would want one.

        • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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          1 day ago

          I don’t think you’re being very sincere. That was one example. I’m not writing a treatise, I’m quipping on the internet. Not all technology should be automatically incorporated just because it exists. Good edgy, comment though. Helpful. If only I could be so sarcastically dismissive I could maybe start a blog or get more followers on my old “MySpace” page. /s

          • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
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            1 day ago

            Whining about insincerety and being sarcastically dismissive after making a stupid sarcastically dismissive comment?