View Single Post
Old 09-21-2024, 02:23 AM   #23 (permalink)
cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
It's all about Diesel
 
cRiPpLe_rOoStEr's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Posts: 12,864
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1,683 Times in 1,501 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
Define affordable.
A no-nonsense runabout, with a convenient size for heavy inner-city traffic, while still capable of addressing most of the needs of a typical household.


Quote:
To some people AWD Lamborghini or purple painted cybertrucks are affordable. To some, whatever the monthly repayment schedule buys, others it is a 15 year old junker from a friend.
To some categories such as trucks and SUVs, that $5000 fine for missing the CAFE standards is easier to assimilate into the retail price than for a compact car. And even in other countries where such regulation doesn't apply, many folks perceive SUVs to have a higher "added value" than a station-wagon or a sedan, even if they're based on the same underpinnings.


Quote:
I'm guessing your version of affordable is much different from mine.
Mexicans may agree with me when I talk about affordable cars

  Reply With Quote