La crise de l’automobile allemande a révélé l’attachement profond du pays à la maîtrise du métal, à la combustion et au sport automobile. Une culture mise à mal par le véhicule moderne, dominé par le logiciel, la batterie et la conduite autonome.
Yeah, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Electric cars were built in the age of planned obsolescence and other insutification mechanisms. There still were ICE cars that were actually built to the highest quality standard, that age of quality, electric car sadly missed.
Yes, that’s the real problem. I don’t really want any car, regardless of how it’s powered, from the full blown enshitification era.
I am old enough to have personal experience with cars that would easily last (last as in pass a rigorous road safety inspection every two years) 2 to 3 decades without needing major overhaul, take a whole lot of abuse, and were for the largest part easily maintainable and repairable with a rather limited skill set and tool box. The majority of those cars was last built in the early 2000s. Maybe there are some still produced outliers, but they aren’t easily available in Europe anymore, because regulations demand a whole crapload of enshittification to be built in these days.
Yeah, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Electric cars were built in the age of planned obsolescence and other insutification mechanisms. There still were ICE cars that were actually built to the highest quality standard, that age of quality, electric car sadly missed.
Yes, that’s the real problem. I don’t really want any car, regardless of how it’s powered, from the full blown enshitification era.
I am old enough to have personal experience with cars that would easily last (last as in pass a rigorous road safety inspection every two years) 2 to 3 decades without needing major overhaul, take a whole lot of abuse, and were for the largest part easily maintainable and repairable with a rather limited skill set and tool box. The majority of those cars was last built in the early 2000s. Maybe there are some still produced outliers, but they aren’t easily available in Europe anymore, because regulations demand a whole crapload of enshittification to be built in these days.