You know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, say, BMW. This is a machine with some status! Let’s say it costs, oh, $61,500, and you’re paying, what, about $1300 a month? Something […]
  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 hours ago

    I own a house, and I make payments to a mortgage company every month, and I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for that mortgage company to put a fucking Spider-Man billboard in my yard, facing my front windows.

    So… you don’t own a house, the bank owns it. Don’t give them ideas.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    No one pays $61,500…they rent them, but they call it “leasing”. It’s a mechanism for douchenozzles to drive something they can’t afford.

    • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I call it a car subscription, and it’s for people who make poor financial decisions. It’s better to buy a car you can afford, pay it off, and own it until it becomes unsustainable to keep it running.

  • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ah right, this was BMW too:

    For the past few years, BMW has behaved in a way that seems to treat their buyers as targets for more revenue over everything else. Remember all their subscription bullshit? People hated that, and worked around it, and eventually BMW had to dial that back, because having a subscription for heated seats makes people want to riot.

    So, definitely on the “don’t even consider” list.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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      1 hour ago

      Unfortunately, I have to agree.

      A lot of people think of BMWs as an “aspirational car” that they actually have a chance of owning someday. Mechanically, they’re excellent cars. I’m disappointed that they keep doing things to cheapen themselves. Lately they’ve been acting like they’re owned by a private equity firm.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Well that was a dodged bullet. I’m glad we settled on a different car when we got ours recently.

    Still, I think pretty much the whole industry is moving towards SaaS bullshit. Everything from subscription heated seats to ads in the infotainment. Hell, even in our new car, I can’t start the car without it begging me to connect to Amazon and setup Alexa. It’s making me miss my older car’s basic dash and infotainment honestly, but getting Android Auto/Car Play and a suspension that doesn’t feel like the Tower of Terror (or whatever it’s called now) whenever we go over a speed bump was life changing.

    This shit should be illegal. At the very least, I hope that ad isn’t playing while driving.

    • jode@pawb.social
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      6 hours ago

      I mean they did that the second they started making SUVs and then really did that the second they put an M badge on an suv. Seriously, their brand used to be 3,5,7 series. What even numbers are they now? They don’t mean anything anymore. Bonkers. But hey line go up I guess.