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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Turns out not everyone can afford a Brand New $150k SUPER TANK. Maybe if American car companies made or sold small cheap practical cars they'd be doing better.

I'm a big car guy (I just think they're neat, not that everyone should be using them for transportation) and it absolutely infuriates me every single time I see some new small practical car announced it's always unavailable in the US market.

Everyone I know refuses to buy new. Not because they can't afford it (although that certainly is part of it) but because in the US nobody is selling any new cars worth anything. They're all overpriced giant child murdermobiles that somehow don't even have space for things

[–] fox@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (8 children)

New car lineup be like:

  1. Small sedan, practical for most.

  2. Medium sedan. Same as the last one but a marginally bigger engine. $15k more.

3-7: Increasingly large SUVs. Maybe some are hybrids or EVs with laughable range. Despite occupying the volume of two sedans they have less passenger space.

8+: Road Dominators, Child Obliterators, and the all-new 2026 Canyonero. Get one gallon per mile fuel efficiency, and what they gain in tow capacity they lose in durability. But it's fine, not a single car in this lineup will ever see a speck of dirt. Also, the truck beds are smaller than the rusted out Ford your great grandpa drove for fifty years on the racism farm.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do they even make small sedans anymore?

[–] fox@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah most brands will have one to two Econoline Shitmobiles with an optional hybrid upgrade at the highest trim.

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