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If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don’t, but a man can dream though. A man can dream.
That’s going to become more and more difficult to do over time.
Cars are being designed to be difficult to repair and to fall apart in less and less time.
No, cars are designed to be easy to manufacture. Which makes them difficult to repair. As someone who has designed and built machines, you need to understand that there is a big difference between easy to manufacture and easy to repair.
Look, I’ll go out there and say it.
Cars are just an afterthought on the heater core. That’s why it’s called the heater CORE and also why you need to disassemble half the damn car to get to it.
I agree … I think the cutoff is about 2010-2015 vintage vehicles. I like Volvo cars and station wagons, they are literal workhorses that were designed by a Swedish company for winter use. And in that vintage, it is just at the peak when the company was still producing good vehicles and just before the point where they were heavily Americanized, then taken over by Chinese interests. The vehicles are still produced in Europe (I think) but of a lesser quality because the company got taken over by foreign interests. And like all manufacturers, they are moving away from the piston engine technology and transitioning to all electric.
Yes it is inevitable that everything will move away from old piston engines … but I think it will all last another 20-30 years before it all becomes impossible or way too expensive for anyone to maintain their old clunkers after that.
To be fair by 2010 they’d been owned by Ford for a decade and then in 2010 were sold to Geely, the Chinese parent company. From everything I hear, the quality actually has gone up under Geely, compared to Ford, which was easily the worst era of Volvo. Personally I still like RWD Volvo bricks, but of course they’re not as safe or efficient as modern cars.