Date: August 19th, 2026 11:46 AM Author: mahogany knife newt
i feel like no one cares what anyone drives anymore. in part because of proles being able to afford 80k trucks on 96 month loan terms, but also because even once ttt brands like hyundai give you all the formerly 'luxury' shit like heated and vented seats, pano roofs, etc.
Date: August 19th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: mahogany knife newt
you're not wrong, my wife's rx350 can probably run forever. we're kind of tired of the dated electronics (no carplay or touchscreen) and don't need the 3rd row, but i am not really looking forward to replacing it because everything (((costs))) so much and doesn't seem worth it.
Date: August 20th, 2026 9:58 AM Author: dead center
ncr. we rented a car in maine/boston last week and car play wasn't working, so whoever was in shotgun had to constantly monitor waze and navigate for the driver bc the stupid goddamn screen wasn't showing the map.
Date: August 20th, 2026 9:58 AM Author: crystalline toaster national
Cars are no longer status symbols, sure. You’d have to be an idiot to spend extra on higher trim or a luxury model, primarily because liability insurance limits are so low relative to the cost of cars. Just go throw money out the window because an uninsured driver just totaled your brand new Camry.
Date: August 20th, 2026 12:48 PM Author: coiffed scourge upon the earth
The decline had already happened by like 2000. From what I can tell, boomers could basically “get laid because they had a nice car” seemingly. Like in the 60s before feminism. This is impossible for us to understand imo. It’s like telling zoomers about house parties.
Also the actual Cars sucked mostly from like 1973 onward except relatively low-volume foreign cars that every millennial thinks are cool which were still largely Small and Slow.
Also ceteris paribus if 2 people make 60k a white person and a mystery meat, the white person — if they don’t spring for a truck — drives a Chevy Cobalt or 2018 RAV4 and the mystery meat drives a BMW X5. URM drift contributes bigly to the loss of prestige.
Every Lexus I see now is driven by some random asian. Saw a new Lexus SUV the other day being driven by a white boomer and it stood out because it was the first white I had seen driving a Lexus in a long time
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:05 PM Author: charismatic bonkers meetinghouse
all status symbols have faded. basically only niggers and poors care about them anymore. rich people communicate wealth through health and mobility and actual status.
Date: August 20th, 2026 5:25 PM Author: Laughsome Disgusting Cuck Business Firm
cars esp private cars are such shit they will go down in the dustbin of history like donkey carts no one will remember, its insane these shithole countries like indos built their cities arnd cars and now they are all ruined
Date: August 20th, 2026 6:39 PM Author: mahogany knife newt
cr, you can't even visually tell the difference between a brand new macbook vs one from 5 yrs ago. can't believe stores like crutchfield still are a thing
Date: August 20th, 2026 7:47 PM Author: hateful forum hominid
Crutchfield's car audio business is in trouble because there's hardly any cars anymore where you can replace the head unit.
But I suspect the rest of Crutchfield is doing just fine. To the extent that people buy home audio stuff they are far less likely to buy it locally than in the past.