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Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by user61129028 »

beerpls wrote: post #118
horsawlarway wrote: post #38

I want to see this legislated out of existence. To be clear, because every time this comes up some dickfucks come in here and start making excuses about how it's better to rent in some cases and that this is just amortizing the whole payment, and there are some people who want this: No. This is a fucking terrible deal even just using mercedes numbers. It takes a whopping 30 months (2.5 years) for the monthly payment…

Thank you for being a voice of righteousness in a sea of simps. It’s hard to tell on this site, are people really this devoted to corps or are they shills? Even with what you said there are still so many people defending this behavior. The world is full of weak and/or deceitful people.

> Thank you for being a voice of righteousness in a sea of simps

Where is this sea of simps? I don't see anyone defending this type of behavior.

Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by mantas »

boston_clone wrote: post #164
fwungy wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original phrase was coined by the World Economic Forum. What the critics leave out is that the WEF was saying that people would be happier not owning anything. >You will own nothing and you will be happy. Alternatively it could have a darker interpretation: you will be a slave and you will be happy, because that's all you're going to get. I suppose it depends if you look at the WEF as a benevolent institution loo…

Easily fact-checked: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wef-idUSKBN2AP2...

Yet another „fact-checking“ that can be easily fact-checked to be a lie.

Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by jollyllama »

deepspace wrote: post #276
jollyllama wrote: post #59

Why does anybody buy this crap?

Back in the day, I participated in Autocross, and occasionally joined a car club for a track day at the local raceway. Gas, club fees, entry fees and instructor fees typically came to $300-400 for a fun Sunday. I drove a stock BMW 3-series, and did not need or want to pay for the added performance of an M-series for day to day driving. However, if I could upgrade to M-series performance for $60 for a track day, I wou…

Ok, that kind of makes sense. Personally, I find something offensive about paying for a machine or device that's intentionally software nerfed by the manufacturer. And outside of a track setting, I think variability in one's daily driver would not be enjoyable.

Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by mikestew »

rootusrootus wrote: post #142
mikestew wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The vast, vast majority of EVs sold today are not forcing subscriptions of any kind on their customers. It's funny that you mention GM, because guess what GM wants to do with EVs starting next model year? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43488135/gm-apple-carplay... (Last line of the article if you want to jump to the spoiler.)

We can worry about that next year. I fully expect GM to walk back some of it's recent announcements based on strongly negative feedback from customers.

Fair enough, let's not reverse-Osborne a company that, as you say, stands a good chance of walking back their announcements (despite having already lost a sale at our house). If GM is axing the Bolt, though, I hope they hold to their word at keeping the Equinox close to the same price point.

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Post by shortcake27 »

oblib wrote: post #165

I grew up around cars, and car builders. I've worked on quite a few very famous cars. My father built custom cars and ran "Barris Kustom" for years. I learned how to build custom cars, including race cars. I also spent years designing and building cars (vans) that quadriplegics could drive and lots of those were for guys who crashed, or got ran into by cars/motorcycle, at high speeds. Personally, I think if anyone cr…

If someone is paying for a 1s quicker 0-60 how can you prove it was that 1s that caused the accident? Also, the vast majority of road trauma is not caused by performance vehicles. This does not sound like a meaningful way to make a difference.

The best way to reduce the road toll is to get humans off the road. Autonomous vehicles are already safer drivers, but people don’t feel comfortable because the fewer mistakes they do make aren’t mistakes humans would make. Once these issues are ironed out we need to rapidly legislate human drivers off the roads.

Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by matheusmoreira »

entrox wrote: post #167
jwilber wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re completely ignoring the customer (people like you) in favor of the (already mega rich) corporations. What a mindset.

> You’re completely ignoring the customer (people like you) in favor of the (already mega rich) corporations. What a mindset. No, I want the company I work for to have similar profit margins as FAANG and thus increase my compensation. Do you also attack those employees because their companies are charging extra for pure software unlocks or subscriptions?

Who cares about your compensation or your corporation's margins? We want to own our goddamn cars.

Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by wiseowise »

olyjohn wrote: post #290
gambiting wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people here think building a successful subscription based product is the absolute goal in life. To them Mercedes (and BMW and others) doing this isn't dumb - it's super smart and worth applauding. Otherwise you're just leaving money on the table /s.

You put the /s, but I don't think this comment is inaccurate in any way. Some people really have enthusiasm for nothing but making money. No hobbies, no interests, no friends, no other goals.

> Some people really have enthusiasm for nothing but making money.

As long as those people have morals, what’s wrong with that?

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Post by Paul-Craft »

konschubert wrote: post #245
horsawlarway wrote: post #38

I want to see this legislated out of existence. To be clear, because every time this comes up some dickfucks come in here and start making excuses about how it's better to rent in some cases and that this is just amortizing the whole payment, and there are some people who want this: No. This is a fucking terrible deal even just using mercedes numbers. It takes a whopping 30 months (2.5 years) for the monthly payment…

I will get downvoted to oblivion for this and apparently this makes me a simp. But if I buy the car and don’t care for the acceleration, then I can NOT book this feature. And in a competitive market, which the auto market is, this will mean that the MRSP for the car is lower for me than it would otherwise have been. Unbundling is part of what made air travel affordable. In a competitive market, unbundling lowers base…

Unbundling is also what made air travel a shitty experience for everybody. Same thing with cable TV.

Re: Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

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Post by konschubert »

Paul-Craft wrote: post #349
konschubert wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will get downvoted to oblivion for this and apparently this makes me a simp. But if I buy the car and don’t care for the acceleration, then I can NOT book this feature. And in a competitive market, which the auto market is, this will mean that the MRSP for the car is lower for me than it would otherwise have been. Unbundling is part of what made air travel affordable. In a competitive market, unbundling lowers base…

Unbundling is also what made air travel a shitty experience for everybody. Same thing with cable TV.

As opposed to a great experience for the privileged few, yes :)
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