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@midway @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen they don't make city cars in the USA anymore because of the cuckbox reputation. You can still get a Mitsubishi mirage though and it gets like 39-40mpg on the highway.
On the other hand you literally cannot find a new diesel car in the USA because no dealers were ordering them or marketing the ones that did exist that were not vws.
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@PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen
Non-commercial diesel has never really worked in the US because we don’t tax gasoline like Europe does. It makes sense for heavy commercial vehicles due to the power needed to haul big loads but it’s a bit of a cult following in the US for cars.
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@midway @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen it's also diesel prices went up, but moreso the shit like the infamous Oldsmobile diesel compounded by the lack of education on things you're not supposed to do to diesel engines that boomers were doing at the time with gas cars. So you had an unreliable engine that was constantly rumored to be a gas engine conversion instead of a clean sheet design, mixed with bad decisions from gas car owners and dealer networks who had no education.
Meanwhile Benz and VW had fewer issues in that era because they had better built engines that held up better with owner neglect or bad decisions and likely a dealer network who knew what they were selling as opposed to the rednecks at a Chevy dealership
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@midway @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen I've heard that European carmakers are killing off small city cars that are cheap because EVs are more expensive to make by a longshot.
Which lines up with you will be happy just fine.
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@PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen
I think small EVs/hybrids are the new city cars at least in the US. Not my cup of tea but neither is big city living
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@PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen
Well in Europe, there is definitely government intervention to dissuade them from making gasoline vehicles in general.
Western Europe has a strange death wish. They are determined to extinct themselves.
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We're heading this way in the USA, moreso because one of our automakers is owned by them.
We have a death wish too only kept away by effortboomers who are going to slowly die out as their kids prefer to wank it to furry porn instead and with no incentive to contribute.
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If they wanted me to reproduce so bad they shouldn’t have torpedoed my career and criminalized being cishet
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@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 @PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen
The bigger reason for the population crunch in the west is the empowerment of women. When you give women choices, they make them. This sounds controversial to many but when you look at papers talking about how to deal with the 3rd world population booms, empowering women is always at or near the top of the list. But for some reason when you suggest that it’s the reason for first world extinction, people get mad and start calling you an istphobe. Go figure.
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european politics be like
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@creamqueen @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @midway I have a newer TDI wagon. 40 on the highway and more with an ecu tune.
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@midway @PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle I'd love to get my hands on an old Mercedes turbo diesel wagon. Those things get like 35mpg
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@creamqueen @PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @midway for the true bugman
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@PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen @midway city cars suck for anyne taller than the average vietnamese
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@Nudhul @PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @midway Japan has kei Cars, cars under a certain weight with no larger than 660cc engines
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@Nudhul @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen @midway gullwing kei car
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@deprecated_ii @houseoftolstoy @Nudhul @Binkle @creamqueen @midway it's mid engined and worth too much as an example of a bubble economy era car of excess. Nobody asked for it and they made it along with the Honda beat and whoever made the cappuccino.
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@PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Binkle @creamqueen @midway where do your legs go?
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@Nudhul @PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @Binkle @creamqueen @midway engine in the back I suppose
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@union @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Nudhul @Binkle @creamqueen @midway kei vans sell worldwide and especially in third world countries because they're ideal for those roads and easy to repair
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@creamqueen @PhenomX6 @houseoftolstoy @deprecated_ii @Nudhul @Binkle @midway The story of kei cars is fairly instructive actually. Their popularity cratered once the tax advantages were reduced, but not to zero. Some people still buy them. Reasons vary. For example, a bunch of private parking spaces are built with them in mind. Also, the tax incentives are not removed entirely.
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