Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces and form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels.

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    3 days ago

    Quality of basically every automaker has tanked post COVID, including Honda. And the prices are highway robbery too, its all a race to the bottom now.

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      3 days ago

      So car-centrism is even more ✨ terrible ✨ now? Golly, who could’ve predicted that relying on and enforcing a single industry for most of our transportation might result in rampant enshittification?

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        3 days ago

        Please. Cars are no more susceptible to enshittification than any other consumer good.

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            That proves your point how exactly? You can come up with dozens of other products that try to charge a monthly fee to access features that used to be free. Or stuff it completely full of ads. Everything is going to shit.

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      3 days ago

      Re prices.

      This is what is pissing me off - I’m subsidizing car manufacturers by not being able to buy cheap Chinese cars, yet the assholes focus on expensive trucks I don’t need. If I’m socializing their losses - I don’t want them building cyber trucks, I want cheap affordable vehicles.