That's more or less the summary of J.D. Power's 2023 U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQS), which highlighted quality declines in eight out of nine key categories. Driving...

That’s more or less the summary of J.D. Power’s 2023 U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQS), which highlighted quality declines in eight out of nine key categories. Driving…

  • Ben@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Always the UP-selling… pushing luxury and convenience and car culture. It’s worse in the USA than most countries, but in the UK people measure your penis in a pub by asking what car you drive.

    Our house has 2 vehicles

    • PCX-150 that costs less to run than a skateboard.
    • 1.2L Yaris with CVT that costs about the same to run as a skateboard. Is comfortable enough and fairly quiet cruising up to 110 km/h (with gentle feet, the needle hovers from 1000 to 2000rpm).

    After a lifetime of driving manual cars, superbikes, this dramatic shift was huge as I wanted to shave expenditure when we bought our house.

    However, we have no intention to ‘upgrade’ to anything with more power or features… rather we only intend to ‘upgrade’ to something that is more economical.