Depends on how much they value reliability, too

Not all busted things make a car inoperable

no, but they may make it unsafe or unsellable

But this is turning into another rabbit hole

especially with the cost of repairs to dumb stuff like ABS often exceeding the value of the car for ~10 year old vehicles

and ABS is literally a feature for retards who don't know how to use their brakes in poor conditions

K

some years ago I had to break a jag because the ABS failed, with working ABS the car was worth maybe 2k, the replacement unit was something like 800 at the time and the car was worth 1800 in parts

so ultimately cars are taken off the road because of bullshit features that people who know how to drive don't need, it's wasteful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnyj3zBf2bk

Best build

...wait did i post this already?

yeah, I wasn't a fan really but to each their own

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-germancars/rs-q8-spy-film-confirms-turbocharged-v8/38183

more suvs just what the world needs...

Well it is clearly what the world _wants_

VW group makes bank on these things

Hell, porsche had their highest profit margins ever just a few years ago because of the Cayenne and Macan

sad

part of me can't wait for driverless cars so the car industry basically dies

with all the bs emissions shit out there I'm surprised they haven't started to fuck suvs over hard

Eh.

Not getting into that argument

Perhaps not...

https://youtu.be/UF5j1DvC954

it's a shame diesels will probably be banned for non commercial vehicles in Europe within 20 years

wich is sad, as the new diesel engines are almost in the negative emissions at least on trucks

nox is the problem

bosch supposedly have something that cuts nox massively but it's not been implemented yey

yet

Diesel is best

I am endlessly salty that you eurofags get all the good ones and we get nothing.

Even the ones we do get are castrated.

I mean the bmw 3.0d makes 255hp here but it makes, what, 300+ hp in europe?

Definitely 300 at the crank.

@LordCaledus Yeah, but the Euros can't drive around a Cummins in the middle of a big city.

This is true

Kind of wish there was a market for diesel muscle cars tbh.

Bmw 760d and the audi 4.0tdi show quite well that you can make a sporty diesel.

I would personally love to see a 370-390hp 5.0 cummins option for a challenger or charger R/T

Like as an optional engine for the R/T, where you can choose the 5.7 hemi or 5.0 cummins

I've heard bad things about the 5.0