Look at the cars being driven around the streets of Iran, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. Even armed militants drive them about and they never breakdown. In the West we are told we need to update cars every few years or once they get to a certain mileage they are worthless.
>>532283224They're easy to repair
No rust
cars peaked in the 90sthey are objectively worse nowthe only thing i like about new cars is the climate control is better and you don't have to fiddle with the heat settings every 10 minthats about it
number one reason is the ease of repair and also wanting to repair them because it's easier to repair than find a new one.And then the climate, hot and dry places won't make the car rust.Here in Finland cars rust in record time because 9 months out of 12 it's winter and salt is being used on the roads to keep them melted. Salt and wet equals rust.
>>532283224all their cousins are mechanics in germany
>>532283224>they run fine>they never breakdownAbsolute nonsense.
>>532283224>In the West we are told we need to update cars every few yearssaid no one ever. people buy new cars for status.
low humidity, low income, cheap mechanic labor.most cars can live off repairs for a long, long time as long as the frame is free of rust and you don't wreck the car.
>>532283844I mean, someone's got to do it. Otherwise we would have no cars.
I used to know a bunch of Iraqis in the early 2000's. They all learned to be back yard mechanics in the 90's during the embargo. They do whatever it takes to nigger rig the thing back together and running. I'm sure Iran is the same. Also, they don't have safety inspections like we do. They can run those cars around with nothing on the car actually working but the four wheels and the engine.
>>532283224a car can be very simple but we add in computers and other shit. cars used to be analog and run off spark plugs and kerosene trapped in a metal box pushing a rod up and down with the explosions that turn the crankshaft which turns the wheels.now you have 15 sensors that need the green light before the car can engage the starter.
>>532283362this>>532283392Very MUCH this (damn that shit is the number one reason our cars die, innit)>>532283798Also this, and none of them would pass an auto inspection in a civilized country. Neither on safety nor environmental - if they had to live up to new car standards.We all have our own version of "vintage" plates, but most of them comes with some sort of limited use clause.
>>532283224Those cars are easy to repair and compatible spare parts can be manufactured even locally because they don't have tiny computers in them telling the car to not work if the part isn't genuine.Hope this helps.
>>532283224Having a drying climate must help
Actually trustworthy mechanics is why
>>532283392ye ye no python, no javascript also!
>>532283521your iq peaked at 68.stfu.
>>532283671why not just use studded tires instead of salting?
>>532283738but i was told they don't work and just collect welfare checks because they are too stupid to do any work other than molesting goats
>>532283798that's irish cars.middle eastern arab cars don't break. ever.just need lubes and tires.
>>532283224Labour is cheap in the third world. They don’t get a $2000 bill every time their car breaks down.
>>532283224>>532283392>No rustpretty much it. Old cars had bulletproof engines, well capable of 1 million kilometers. They just all rusted into the ground, in Europe.
>>532284077imma buy me a fine danish automobile i reckon which make-model would you recommend? i need a pickup truck for me horse and puppies.
>>532283224They don't have to deal with frequent condensing water and the more destructive winter salt damage.
>>532284386That would help a bit here, but having us all on tiny island and one narrow pinensula with salt weather all around and frequently stormy cold wet weater means we'd still get rusty as fuck cars.Don't you guys try to avoid buying old cars from people who live by the sea / work at the habor because of how fucked with corrosion they are?
>>532283521>climate control is betteraren't climate control of old cars known for being able to blow white frost out of the vents? They used freon refrigerant back then
>>532283224what they tend to do is keep the production lines for the old cars open. so even though it looks like a 1990 or 1985 or whatever, it could have been built much more recently.
>>532283224405s were made until late 2000s in iran under different namehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_405
They probably just don't have yearly inspections, and chop off all the emission crap the moment they arrive there.
>>532283224Because newer cars are worse and more expensive due to the unnecessary tech bloat so they can fuck your wallet and your right to privacy.
>>532284606Eeeh, just an old car from here? Or a car we made? We're not really a car maker country.And the closest thing to a pickup truck we ever made was the Logicar from the 80's - good luck finding one of those though, and you'll look like a poorfag musk-fan-boi driving one because, well, pic:(It's tiny)
>>532283224I've been driving this car for 25 years (350k km) and it also runs fine. No need to avoid bacon.
>>532283224In the third world, their goal is to keep cars running. In britain their goal is to take cars off the road
>>532283521>cars peaked in the 90s/thread
>>532283224those Peugots are made in Iran so all the spare parts are available cheap
>>532283521I can of prefer the absolute ice coming out my AC or the unbearable heatThe weird auto shit and the fake degree measurement is so Chinese. Plus it takes fucking three minutes to adjust it to full cold or hot, new cars really are fucking gay
>>532284684Propane is the best refrigerant.
>>532284992>no results on image>autodoxing in a car threadEmission tests ruined engines and buyers ruined build quality because they don't even notice so why bother. Journalists praised the modern mazda interiors but when I saw them slightly used irl they look like worn temu toys. Lexus LS interior looked cheap to me compared to 20 years ago. Nobody cares and brands gave up.
>>532283224replacing the engine isn't more expensive than the car itself and there are a ton of aftermarket parts for cheap
>>532286839emissions tests are fake just like every test in this confucian larping rat raceimagine believing emissions are real when a 2 ton jalopy from more than two decades ago gets 30 mpg on a highway while a new suv gets a maximum of 18
>>532286839>autodoxing
>>532286839Glowies can try to come get me, I'll run them over with my Mercedes>>532287610kek
>>532283224Pickups are more fashionable though.
>>532287428And that’s not even mentioning how Volkswagen lied and programmed their computers to cheat the emission tests for their “clean diesels” for like a decade. German cars used to have a good reputation, now they’re overengineered trash produced by scummy corpos. The west has fallen.
>>532283224Buy something made around 2000 or 2005. Before 2008.
>>532283224>never break downThe only ones you see are the ones that are still running, dummy. And your premise is based on seeing two or three photographs. And you assume that anyone in those places can get one of those cars if they want one.>let me cherry pick a few plausible statements to the exclusion of 99.98 percent of the entire story and reveal unto you the absolute truths of the universeThe absolute state of /pol/
>>532288560Why are the extrema platypuses? Asking for my dumb friend.
>>532288710Random pull from Yandex. Ask the Russians.
Poor countries have real economies, which means men are more likely to learn skills needed such as how to fix and maintain cars. In the West we have fake and gay economy where Stacie can get paid $100K a year to send a couple emails a day, which means any ACTUALLY valuable skills become expensive. In fagUSA, a $2000 car with a failed transmission will cost more than the car is worth to fix. It costs more because the skills and will to fix transmissions is much rarer since fake BS jobs pay more, don't involve lifting heavy shit, getting hands dirty with grease and oil, etc. the market value will say that it is $4000 for example to swap the tranny. Therefore makes more sense to just junk the old car and buy another.But in third world, the car is still seen as immensely valuable even if it has a bad tranny, so it's worth the time to fix it. And because fake jobs don't exist, more men have the skills needed to fix it, which makes it comparatively cheap to fix. They can't get jobs sending emails, they need to provide actual value to others to survive.I can't wait til the jewSA collapses. Such a satanic, sick filthy country.
>>532288560Based and survivorship bias pilled.
>>532284386>why not just use studded tires instead of salting?then your vehicle would last longer and you might be spending some time with no car paymentcant be having that now can wethey made it worse with whatever that bluish shit isthere's some enzyme additive that can prevent it from rusting tf out of your carbut here where I am they specifically dont add it inmy old bucket rusted to fkn hell once they started using that shit here
>>532283224>1988 car of the year reigns supreme still in 2026I should buy a 405....
>>532287950Modern drivetrains are still optimized for tests but vw made the car recognize it which was clever desu. Cars might be a bit more economic now but they last half as much. My 2009 jap 2.5 v6 is doing 40+ mpg highway and not even halfway death at 180k miles. Cannot imagine americans pay double digit percentage of their wage monthly for slop when they can drive a young classic that doesn't depreciate.
>>532289603Clever and extremely dishonest to basically everyone, including their customers. How VW still even exists as a company is testimony to how Jewish the system has become. You’re doing it correctly imo: the most “environmentally friendly” thing to do if you must have a vehicle is to buy something fuel efficient and keep it on the road for as long as possible. If you care about that sort of thing.
>>532284992is this a w220 s class? fuck it looks nice
>>532283224Bunch or reasons, actually.>no rust (so the body can go forever, basically)>labour costs nothing (so you can keep repairing it for cheap)>these cars are old, old cars were simply better and lasted way longer and are easier and cheaper to repair>they don't have regular vehicle inspection that bans broken cars from driving on the road>they do not care fore safety >people are simply to poor to buy something new so they keep using their shitboxesThere are probably even more reasons.
>>532283224They're not old car, they're new car made on old blue prints. They still make peugeot 405 in iran, they bought lincese agreements they call it peugeot pars or something from khondro.
>>532290018Customers got a better car that "passed" the test. After the update your engine suffered all kinds of bs like carbon buildup, higher fuel consumption, strain on turbo, a shittier drive.
>>532283224They don't produce cars and therefore there gubernment is not pressed to make up laws that let car sales rise
>>532283224Old cars don't break so often and they are simple to fix. I have 25 y.o. fiesta very simple car don't breaks ofter, parts cost nothing and if the mechanics can be believed it is very easy to fix. Is is just dead slow. If something take my card out it will be rust but in arabic countries there is not a low of rain and there is no snow and salt for the winter so they do not have rust problems.
>>532291912Lying to regulators over some bullshit arbitrary emission standards is one thing, lying to your customers and ripping them off is another. Once again, I’m not sure how VW still exists as a company.
>>532290110>>people are simply to poor to buy something new so they keep using their shitboxesthis, its the lack of modern health standards, leaking=no problemburnig oil= no problemno brakes=no problemas long as the car moves doesn't matter if it poisons the driver, passengers or by-standers
>>532283392Yep the three cars I had to scrap in my life were because of structural rust issues.
>>532283224If you remove all the regulatory bullshit from cars for safety, emissions, and fuel efficiency, they become pretty darn simple to keep on the road. 80% of the cost of a car in the US can be drawn back to regulatory requirements.
>>532294515It doesn't need to remove all. Just roll back to the standards from 20 years ago, it will be enough.
