>Dat is omdat kleine auto’s gewoon niet meer gemaakt worden.
I don’t like the fact that they portray it as “oh it’s just the car manufacturers who refuse to build them and the consumer gets screwed”.
If there was enough demand for small cars, you’d still see **some** car brands capitalize on that market and sell small cars.
But people just buy a car thinking “what if I need to drive half a football team to Spain once every 5 years, surely I need a big car for that!”.
Simple solution: tax cars by weight, and use the profits to lower the cost of bicycles.
It makes sense: heavier cars are deadlier and cause more wear and tear of infrastructure. Cycling lowers total government spending.
An exception for electric cars may be needed though.
Dacia is still king of cheap cars, but due to the EU, cars need more and more standard equipment. Traction control, ABS, automatic emergency braking,… A Sandero is still less than 10k and even the basic Duster is less than 15k. For a lot of people, that’s fine, but it’s “Dacia” and sometimes frowned upon. There’s so many of them though and the Sandero is one of the best selling cars in the last few years. Dacia’s are great cars for drivers that just need to drive shorter distances from A to B.
The new Dacia’s have LED daytime running lights, and combined with the grille makes a nice looking front.
I was lucky to buy an end-of-production P208 a bit before Covid. Paid 9K instead of 15K. All new models are 17K and up.
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>Dat is omdat kleine auto’s gewoon niet meer gemaakt worden.
I don’t like the fact that they portray it as “oh it’s just the car manufacturers who refuse to build them and the consumer gets screwed”.
If there was enough demand for small cars, you’d still see **some** car brands capitalize on that market and sell small cars.
But people just buy a car thinking “what if I need to drive half a football team to Spain once every 5 years, surely I need a big car for that!”.
Simple solution: tax cars by weight, and use the profits to lower the cost of bicycles.
It makes sense: heavier cars are deadlier and cause more wear and tear of infrastructure. Cycling lowers total government spending.
An exception for electric cars may be needed though.
Dacia is still king of cheap cars, but due to the EU, cars need more and more standard equipment. Traction control, ABS, automatic emergency braking,… A Sandero is still less than 10k and even the basic Duster is less than 15k. For a lot of people, that’s fine, but it’s “Dacia” and sometimes frowned upon. There’s so many of them though and the Sandero is one of the best selling cars in the last few years. Dacia’s are great cars for drivers that just need to drive shorter distances from A to B.
The new Dacia’s have LED daytime running lights, and combined with the grille makes a nice looking front.
I was lucky to buy an end-of-production P208 a bit before Covid. Paid 9K instead of 15K. All new models are 17K and up.