- Make car dependant infrastructure for every single city or town
- Refuse to innovate, build only "luxury" models
- ????
- Profit

1. Dogmatically sticking to fossil fuels.
2. "Protecting" domestic manufacturering jobs by refusing to engage with your neighbours.
3. Using tariffs to keep out affordable Chinese EVs that use tech everyone will probably be using in 15 to 20 years.

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. You can only artificially prop up your domestic market for so long. You'll inevitably fall behind even further on innovation with this approach.

Might be the first to make a CoPilot or ChatGPT powered car though.

I saw something about being approved for "up to 100k" for a car loan. 100k for a car? Man, this country is fucked.

I'm told that Americans only want big expensive cars but for some reason the government felt the need to slap 100% tariffs on small inexpensive Chinese cars.

Trump tariffs combined with the policy to 'make in America and buy American' is going as well as predicted then.

As soon as someone releases a small electric pickup truck, I'm grabbing one and holding on to it as long as possible. It's gotta have LFP batteries, though. Those last a long time.

Tbh i don't think i will ever buy a new car. New doesn't even mean "good" or "reliable" at this point, just a warranty and that they don't know for sure what or how much is going to break in 10K miles. Its literally paying more to be a beta tester.

At least after a couple years third party techs have mostly figured out where the manufacturer cheaped out and how to fix it for less than the dealership wants.

I just want a small car I can work on myself. 30 years ago, I could maintain my own car, do some shadetree mechanics...

But all cars today are meant to be black boxes. All need proprietary tools and computers to do almost anything.

Dear Santa, could I have a 67 camaro.

hugs Civic si

you'll get all the motors and transmissions you need, widdle guy.

Similar to how China let Tesla in to force its domestic market to compete (Which now makes the best EV's in the world) America should do the same. Let BYD or Xiaomi sell cars in the states, Musk and co. can then compete or lose to the Chinese. With musk's close ties to the admin I doubt this will happen.

Paying massive tariffs could be part of the problem.

Hurray! The GDP is saved!

Most American cars are made outside of the USA, and most countries that supply cars and parts and under tariffs from King Dingus so yeah, cars are fucking expensive NOW. They were already trending higher.

All hail the supreme leader Trump. Yes, he maybe a pedo, rapist and multiple convicted felon, as well as a failed businessman, but he really represents the American dream........

Sometimes I just want a car with power windows. That's it. I'll Putin my own deck and call it a day.

I don't need a zillion sensors worth 1k a piece and all that bullshit.

Now make me a 15k car which is brand new.

For some reason most of America decided that they needed a massive truck or SUV that could haul a semi trailer yet their needs 99.9% of the time are short trips and buying groceries.

The 1965 dodge dart cost $2153 when it released. That's $22,004.55 according to an inflation calculator I found online. The dart is a badass car, imaging bying a sick muscle car today for less than 25 grand.

The charger 2 door, which is the closest dodge comparable to the dart. It starts at $54,995. Over double.

I realize dodge's sales model is different and the market itself likely couldn't be compared. But how the hell are we paying over double for vehicles that fit similar market slots? We are so fucked.

Edit: Dodgers to Dodge's. Seriously autocorrect just doesn't work.

Step 1: oligopoly. Step 2: Make less stuff, make it worse, and make it more expensive. Step 3: Use the wealth hoarded that way to make it easier to become a monopoly.

A literal decade late on that headline, good work CNN!

Unsustainable grift is unsustainable? Wow I'm shocked.

Mass transit systems yet? No? Okay, I'll check back in a decade after this problem has gotten substantially worse.

I have an electric golf cart that I can take on any roads 35 mph or lower, I’m saving for a lithium upgrade so I can go farther than 15 miles round trip. I had my last vehicle stolen when cars were not available at the beginning of COVID. I bought a mini van to replace it, it cost twice what I wanted to pay but I have to have a good vehicle for the family and a sedan just wasn’t realistic. Luckily insurance also paid out over twice what my stolen vehicle originally cost me because of the market at the time. I love my mini van but I usually only drive it once or twice a week, most of my daily trips are in the golf cart.

walk, bus, ride, roll, scoot…if you can!