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the US automobile industry looking like Cuba where cars are held together with duct tape and sheer willpower because the only alternative is an $800,000 bazingamobile that's already broken before reaching the lot
It literally already feels like that here in states that salt the roads heavily in winter.
People commonly go to other states to buy their bottom of the barrel shitboxes because at least they have solid frames that haven't rusted out yet. feels like most people here (besides the bazingas) drive beat up, smashed in, rusted out, or all three, 10-20 year old vehicles that they just barely keep on the road and functioning. Every winter there are fresh accidents galore and people just keep driving that shit because who can afford a new car, or a repair that costs 1/2 or more what they paid for the car?
This is probably enabled by the fact there are no government inspections for roadworthiness, and that only liability insurance is required so people can just drive whatever and the cops don't care to pull anyone over for things like: broken or missing headlights, taillights, turn signals, broken exhaust, no tread tires, out of date registration, major fluid leaks, smoking, anything really... unless the driver is brown
I used to drive a car with a rear bumper held in place with bailing wire. Preach!
I had a car that had a muffler barely hanging on by coat hangers.