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#SuperUselessVehicles

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@kamiten allegedly because they want to "sell vibes" instead and "figure themselves out"...

  • Granted, noone wanted their #SuperUselessVehicles like the #Epace: I've never even heard or seen anyone who drove one, and I'm shure not even car enthusiasts and reviewers wanted to take a look at it, because it's bland af...

It's neither "sporty" nor "extremely luxurious" and the quality control was really shotty according to reviews.

  • I mean, when you think of #Jaguar you think of some big purring engine and some sporty two-door or some luxurious limosine that is above Audi, Mercedes and BMW in terms of quality and basically feels like a right-hand competitor to a #Maserati...

ALMOST NONE OF THEIR VEHICLES of their current lineup has that feel.

  • OFC the cat on the hood had to go for #CrashCompatiility reasons (having some protrusion on the top of the hood isn't nice towards pedestrians and cyclists) tho #MercedesBenz had the same issue and were able to keep concerns low by having the star on a too easy to break off stem on their hood (to the point that #punks in #Germany wore those like shoulder rank insignia), but that's the leas of their problems...

Cuz why would I want to pay more for a Jaguar when #Audi and others get me the same experience, good interior and even better service networks and 3rd party support?

  • Like #LandRover (who don't make good 4x4s anymore - the modern #LandroverDefender is a horrible joke!) they don't make good custom limos which can get padded with Kevlar nor have the quality control to justify paying more?

I think it's good that #Jaguar *stopped making #cars* because the cars they did make in recent times were #SuperUselessVehicles, overpriced and ugly #ConceptCars one couldn't even buy and just generally worse, more expensive and less quality than anything other European brands coughed up.

  • If someone wanted something sporty, #Audi and #Porsche would get them a good offering at a lower price.

  • If they needed some shitty #SUV, #MercedesBenz and #BMW would offer their GL & X series if a #VW #Tiguan wasn't wasn't cutting it and they didn't want an #Amarok.

  • And for anything #cargo or #HighCapacity Jaguar never offered anything (unless we cound requesition production during #WW2 & #WW1)...

I do blame the folks at #TataMotors who own Jaguar (and #LandRover) for refusing to actually innovate and produce some good vehicles.

Obviously Jaguar won't build a #PersonalLightVehicle even if they were to make a super-luxurious one that has the interior of a fighter jet and a price tag to match.

  • Similarly #Bentley struggles as well and for #RollsRoyce their car division - like the #camera division of #Leica - is just a tiny side-hustle kept rolling out of passion and tradition whilst being a rounding error in their finances (cuz the most made Product of Rolls Royce is called "Trent", not "Phantom" and is a turofan engine. likewise Leica makes their money with precision engineering and lab instruments)!

I mean, look at what Jaguar, Land Rover, Bentley, Rolls Royce et. al. offer in a time where people in the U.S. get 5+ year downpayments on USED CARS (!!!) and tell me with a straight face that this is a sustainable market.

  • Spoiler: It's not!
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And yes, the #Trump #Regime is dellusional thinking the #USA is irreplaceable when in fact it most certainly is!

#Manufacturers like "P.R." #China, #Vietnam, #Japan, #India et. al. are quick to #pivot to other #markets like the #EU and the #GlobalSouth.

  • Just like penalizing #tariffs and #taxes in #Brazil didn't really get them much #industrialization and instead merely made certain items and products just unaffordably expensive to import and buy.

The matter of the fact is that this ain't 1945: the #US needs the #world more than vice-versa, espechally since the world moves on and both #EU and #NATO will continue to exist, thrive and expand even without the USA!

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@tk personally, I'd rather stick with older cars if not oldtimers if that's what it takes to not have a tracker 24/7 [aka. #eCall] running...

Pulling a #TataNano instead...

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@rahmstorf #eFuels lösen das #Speicherproblem und können im Falle von #Methanol-#Brennstoffzellen eine saubere Alternative zu #Dieselgeneratoren sein!

Echte #Verkehrswende bedarf mehr als ne #Antriebswende, sondern #RechtAufÖPNV, #PersonalLightVehicles statt #SuperUselessVehicles und #Radinfrastruktur, denn jedes #Auto ist ein Versagen.von #ÖPNV & #ÖPFV!

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@lofjoh @VQuaschning nein, sondern die Durchsetzung existierender #Regeln und #Gesetze!

Die meisten Toten durch #SuperUselessVehicles in den #USA sind die Kinder der Halter*innen/Fahrer*innen die beim rückwärts ausparken überrollt wurden!

#Tempolimit ist wie #GrundrechtsfreierRaum aka. "#Waffenverbotszone" plump-populistische #Symbolpolitik und komplett an den echten Problemen (mangelnde #Radinfrastruktur, mangelnde #Kontrollen von #Überholabstand, mangelnde #ÖPNV-Versorgung, mangeonde #Barrierefreiheit, ...) vorbei!

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@VQuaschning das Problem sind nicht #Verbrenner sondern dass #VW, #Stellantis & Co. nur noch überteuerte, überfette und/oder sinnlose shice verkaufen!

  • Ernsthaft, das ist so als würde ich nen vierstelligen Stundensatz netto verlangen wollen und mich dann beschweren, dass mich dafür keine*r als IT'ler einstellen oder heauftragen will!

#WasFehlt sind #PersonalLightVehicles 1 statt #SuperUselessVehicles im Bereich ab €50k & #Luxus-Lomos ab €75k...

Dass #BEV prinzipiell schwerer und teurer sind ändert wenig dran.

Überhaupt bedarf es einer #Verkehrswende, denn eine reine #Antriebswende allein wird nix bringen!!!

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@thomasareed @CAWguy @Viss Granted, the solution is to use #LEDs in #bulbs and mandate properly adjusted and adjustable lights that don't blind people.

  • That is perfectly possible to do, it's just not wanted, because #AntiRepairDesign in terms of #LED #headlights is more profitable when manufacturers can charge 4+ digits for an entire lamp vs. at max. € 250 for a cerfified LED-bulb or less than €50 for a matched pair of Osram Nightbreaker Unlimited, which are the brightest bulbs that I can shove into my Corsa D without recertifying the setup.

But yeah, to me it seems as if too many people constantly use highbeams all the time and in modern #superUselessVehicles one doesn't notice due to automatically & electrically dimmed mirrors and the fact that said cars nowadays have their front lights above the height of the rear window of a regular compact hatchback...

  • IOW said cars are purposefully designed to be "lighting incompatible" to any other car!

The #Enshittification of the #car is a major problem and also a reason most modern cars are now €50k+ MSRP and it's impossible to find anything that is legally a car for under €10k and extremely hard for under €25k...

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@OTTENSERGESTALTEN @tazgetroete diese #Logik ist dahingehend absurd, als dass ein #Auto ohne Person am Steuer - genauso wie ein #Balisong oder ein #Maschinengewehr - von sich aus nichts tut!

  • Das Problen ist die Person am Steuer!

Dass #MangelndeVerantwortbarkeit, #MangeondeKonsequenzen und besonders gesteigerte #Lethalität per #Design (siehe #SuperUselessVehicles) gibt bestreite ich nicht; Im Gegenteil!

Und das würde zwangsweise verlangen, dass die #Verfettung von #Autos verboten, #Übersichtlichkeit verbessert und #Höhe von #Motorhaube & Co. massiv gesenkt wird!

Vielleicht sollte die @EUCommission verpflichtende "#Flottenlethalität"-Grenzwerte definieren?

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@JoernPaulini ja, wer nur #SuperUselessVehicles und absurd überteuerte Limos baut verdient die selbstverschuldete Pleite (weil Missmanagment)...

  • Das ist genauso als würden Hollan & Holland sowie Kynoch sich darüber beschweren, dass keinerWafden und Munition in .700 Nitro Express kauft, wenn diese £250.000 Pro Gewehr bzw. £100 Pro Schuss kosten...

#WasFehlt sind #PersonalLightVehicles!
github.com/KBtechnologies/PLV

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