• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    4 months ago

    All the car manufacturers want to build giant boats now, as big as can possibly fit on the road and in parking spaces, because of their addiction to profit margins.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yes, somehow the American car buyer has been bamboozled into thinking that a bigger car is “luxury” and a smaller car is somehow “lower end,” so automakers price their larger cars higher even though the physical size has very little to do with the actual manufacturing cost.

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        4 months ago

        Americans have almost always equated bigger with better. Look at cars back in early 70s. I drove a 73’ Impala, that thing was huge, even by today’s standards