Have you seen the 1990s looking cars they drive around Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Syria? These cars are operating fine. Go look at the footage of the rubble in Gaza right now, it's all old 90s boxes being driven around. If anyone does that in the West they are told there is too much mileage on the car and it's a write off and not safe to drive on the road. Everyone in the West upgrades their car every 5 years yet these Muslim places have cars on the road for 40 years and they never break down.
Why is having a new car so important when all the Muslim countries have old cars working fine?
because its important to be familiar with new technology
Why is having a new car so important when all the Muslim countries have old cars working fine?
So you spend more. Same reason there's such a stigma around living with your parents past 18 and such a pressure to go to university even if you have no long term plan. Landlords want you renting.
why aren't we more like third world shitholes
why are britbongs so retarded?
17yo no car mummy's boy detected
You know how many reg and rules there are to keep a car legal on the road in the UK/West?
Fucking hundreds and they cost a packet
Wog lands are not oppressed in the same hence they can keep anything running for literal pennies
Have you seen the 1990s looking cars they drive around Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Syria?
In those markets, those are new cars. They don't have the R&D to make them better. They buy old tooling that they can get past sanctions and just make it work.
Your quints have been observed for the megaheil
That's why they try so hard making new cars disposable appliances. Because the 1990's cars can go forever, and sales of new cars would suffer.
These digits don't lie.
This is not the whole story.
Lots of old cars run ok, when the attitude about new ones is they’re done in 7 years.
Also a factor
Western cars are over engineering to an absurd extent, deliberately so as they become impossible for the average person to easily fix them without a major investment in tools and skills to the point its not worth it so you just have to buy a new one.
Meh, I've had the same truck for 20 years, but I keep a new car for my wife and kids. It's ok, I can afford it.
What new technology. Both battery powered motors and internal combustion are 100+ years old the only thing that keeps getting added is pointless faggotainment gizmos and driver aids that reduce the level of control you have over the machine.
The only point of selling new unreliable, unfixeable cars loaded full of bullshit is to keep extracting money from you.
I like having bluetooth in my ute so I can listen to music, Thats all I need shrimple as. About the only thing I desire is for v8's to come back, I kinda want one because I never drove one before.
95% of the shit added after satnav is a retarded gimmick
I drive a 1998 Toyota Camry, I love it and don't care what others think. It's comfy, good on fuel, inexpensive to service and cheap to insure.
I couldn't imagine having a need to get a new car every five years. Even if I was making 90k and doing fine paying off a mortgage, doing something that fucking stupid wouldn't even cross my mind.
Having to constantly 'upgrade' cars is unironically broke mindset, especially how newer cars are getting consistently worse and worse. The only feature worthy of upgrading to is safety.
Lots of old cars run ok, when the attitude about new ones is they’re done in 7 years.
The figures don't necessarily coincide with that claim. 2024 figures suggest a lifespan of 16.6 years and/or 156k miles before the average car is junked. The number appears to steadily climb. The sweet spot for cars appears to be in the early 2000s.
I cannot say the same for cars post-2018, that's when most automakers started introducing major revisions to their vehicle models, and that's around the time when a lot of the reliability complaints became known. They probably won't last that long, especially recalled vehicles that blow up under 80k miles.
Western cars are over engineering to an absurd extent
It's a genuine problem, and a lot of the issue is feature creep. People want their car to do everything their phone can do and it makes them ridiculously complicated. Add to it that governments are mandating increasingly stringent controls on vehicles that the diminishing returns significantly increases complexity and cost.
Meh, I've had the same truck for 20 years
I'm on 15 years and counting. It'll probably get 182k miles by the end of this month. I want to replace it but car market is still overvalued. I still see 200k mile cars for $20k. The dealer and faceberg car flippers can keep their cars.
If anyone does that in the West they are told there is too much mileage on the car and it's a write off
Bullshit faggot I see them now and again. Although to be fair it's more out of choice than necessity.
I like having bluetooth in my ute so I can listen to music, Thats all I need shrimple as.
I'd probably want a bit more than that.
cruise control
power windows
power locks
power mirrors
immobilizer
car alarm
hvac
There are still cars out there where that stuff is still optional.
You can get bluetooth into any old scrap with a DIN radio
People want their car to do everything their phone can do and it makes them ridiculously complicated.
The first time I had to deal with navigating an entire menu system just to adjust the AC was enough for me to never want one in a car. All I need is two knobs and a stereo for my phone/bluetooth.
Yes, I have android auto in my old Camry.
yeah pretty much. you can get a 3.5jack to BT adapter that makes almost any car play your music + basic phone holder if i need satnav
Average age of US cars on road is over 12 years.
I have not done any major maintenance on my Ford Fiesta 2013. It's at around 160000km and it's still on its original spark plugs, clutch, belts, and transmission oil. How fucked is it?
How fucked am I?
Everything you said has been standard in cars since the 90's chud.
I know single dins can do that.
Fuck the phone holder, just put your phone side ways on your dash cluster, obscuring your rev meter and not your speedometer and you got yourself a inbuilt phone holder, shrimple as.
If your shitbox has a timing belt, it will probably snap leading to your entire engine being fucked up. If it's chain driven then you don't need to worry.
Do you understand that Capitalism is based on exploitation and turning human beings into slaves?
all they can afford are used cars from other nations
It's easy when you only put 10k miles on a vehicle every decade, everyone you know lives in three villages, and the roads would fuck your vehicle long before it's drivetrain wore out.
How do I tell if my engine is sohc or dohc?
Probably based on your badge chud, looks like a SOHC tho.
you don't have to worry about road salt and rust in the desert
take it back to r*ddit кoмpaд its fucking tiresome
Problem is that modern cars don't last that long. So to avoid expensive maintenance costs and reduce mileage it makes sense to get a relatively new one fairly regularly. If you buy brand new you eat a lot of depreciation but there is a sweet spot somewhere in the 2-5 year range.
Yea but can he voice activate Spotify to bring up Billie Eilish then voice activate an order to the local goyslop joint for door dash deliver all while driving home from her email girl job?
They don't rust there, because of climate.
Depreciation doesn't hit that hard when you purchase a landcruiser tho!
Seems to match the picture of 1.6-litre Duratec engine with TI-VCT in a 2012 Ford Focus on this page en.m.wikipedia.org
Which means it's belt driven and I should probably do something about it.
Probably should, I have a belt driven ute and I want to get rid of it because I don't want to change it since it looks to be a pain in the fucking ass.
Only going to buy chain driven cars.