r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 10h ago

SMH Thoughts on this?

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u/TheDevilsDominium 10h ago edited 9h ago

As someone who has worked in US automotive manufacturing for a while... we literally all say this constantly. No one wants any of this crap in their car unless they are that out-of-touch-with-reality wealthy.

Edit: fixed an added dash that didn't belong.

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u/SvartrKukkSceand 9h ago

and yet the barebones models that exist dont sell.

Several of the "Japanese" makers that still offered 20k-ish base model cars with no options recently they all discontinued them because they accounted for not even a rounding error in sales.

No one wants them.

Someone would rather buy a used car with more options for the same price 99 times out of 100.

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u/stylepointseso 9h ago

Comparing a used "luxurious" one vs a new barebones one, both at 20k works out like that.

Now compare the used barebones one at 10k vs the used luxury one at 20.

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u/Get_screwd 8h ago

People would always rather buy a well optioned used car over a brand new cheaper car, and the car market reflects that.

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u/stylepointseso 8h ago

Somehow you saw my reply to someone making that argument and managed to not understand it again.

My reply to you would be the exact same thing I said to the last person.

Apples and oranges.