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>when your favorite car youtuber starts posting about how old cars are better
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>>28829563
Before slower cars were more reliable. Power + Reliability + Price always remains constant and conserved within known technological engineering and manufacturing constraints. Newer cars have shifted from focusing on reliability to increase profit margins so slower cars are now less reliable and produced cheaper to increase profit. Also less reliable cars mean people will be less likely to buy used cars and push more sales to new cars.
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>>28829592
Now more powerful cars are more reliable
Engines with more power are less stressed in their lives than high strung small turbocharged engines
The Chevy corvette stingray is probably 10x more reliable than a Chevy trax
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>>28829671
Even if they are better, why does the youtuber present it as if its some unpopular opinion
>vgh im about to say something really controversial, but i just think the old cars are better
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>>28829670
EVs and anything with electric components, built in cameras, infotainment, fuel injection instead of a carburetor, is less reliable by default. Our reliable cars were built in the 50s and 60s. Japan stopped making them reliable in the late 90s.
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>>28829889
Those older cars were simpler, thus easier and cheaper to diagnose problems earlier and fix and maintain as they age. Newer cars are far more complex, require more complicated components that aren't cheap or easy or replace making it more costly to repair as cars age and those components begin to fail. Especially digital components involving computer chips and electronics that completely fail if once any one small component fails. Older cars with analog and mechanical components, when those begin to fail, rather than catastrophically fail instantly, they degrade over time.