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So many conspiracy theories in these comments about why American manufacturers don't build smaller cars.
It's very simple, American Auto Companies are loan companies, not auto manufacturers.
Why would they produce a $10k go-kart with a useable bed when they can get people to finance a $110k SUV at 18% APR?
It's not about oil, or other resources, or even labor and tooling.
It's just much more profitable to put you into debt.
Especially because we are a captive market. Public transport is essentially non existent in most areas. You have to get a car, and you have to take a loan on it. Without a car, a lot of places won’t even hire you.
Can't you buy cheaper or 2nd hand cars?
It’s still going to be at least $10k or so, unless you scour Facebook marketplace or know how not to get scammed.
My stepfather’s job was to negotiate deals between the car dealerships and the banks. They were all fucking sharks. Used car salesmen are terrible people as a rule.
I've noticed that Americans do not consider using an armed rebellion against evil corporate practices but talk about 2A rights all the time.
Most of the 2A talks come from people who want to start evil corporations.
No armed rebellion is complete without a technical built from a Toyota Hilux, which we sadly only get the slightly larger variant, the Tacoma.
The truth about the perfect vehicle for armed uprisings isn't that they only use Hiluxs. That's simply a myth. The truth is that no other vehicle has ever been able to complete even a single mission. You send 20 Hiluxs and 40,000 Tacomas into battle? You'll soon have 20 Hiluxs and 40,000 heaps of burning inferior pieces of junk. The Hilux has proven time and time again that it isn't just the perfect vehicle for an armed rebellion, it's the only vehicle able to survive.
And them's the facts.
As an American I can break it down for you. The people who wont stop about 2A are sheep, sheep get told what to think, so when the "news" tells them that doing anything to make life better in America will actually make life worse and is some form of evil -ism (communism, socialism, etc.) that they have been programmed to hate, they believe it without question. These clowns are incapable of creating a personal opinion, they just accept the narrative that their favorite talking head gives them, and think they came up with it all on their own.
This is without even getting into the tribalism that makes these beliefs they have been given feel like a part of their identity, and thus making it near impossible to change.
I'm not really concerned about these idiots losing their guns, because they're too much of pussies to actually use them on the correct enemy. They don't know who the enemy is, let alone be able to read. They're easily indoctrinated. Not only that, their co-opted, their messages are taken away from them. I mean, they're just such a servile people. For me, I mean, if there ain't no revolution, because there ain't gonna be one inside of the Imperial core, the gun would just be used on myself to kill myself, so I just don't have a gun. I mean emotions fluctuate, you know?
That sounds more conspiracists than “Americans like shit vehicles”
The Canyonero Simpsons episode came out in 98 to make fun of this
Not disagreeing with you, but Kei trucks lack a lot of standard safety features, so it's not a black and white issue
They don't have standard safety features because it's illegal to import the ones that do.
Didn't Trump start messing around with all that? Like our safety standards? Because his boy, Elon, wanted to be looked at as... The CEO that doesn't create unsafe cars.