Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces and form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil…

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces and form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels.

  • Carmakazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    2 days ago

    Quality of basically every automaker has tanked post COVID, including Honda. And the prices are highway robbery too, its all a race to the bottom now.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2914·
      2 days ago

      So car-centrism is even more ✨ terrible ✨ now? Golly, who could’ve predicted that relying on and enforcing a single industry for most of our transportation might result in rampant enshittification?

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        2 days ago

        Please. Cars are no more susceptible to enshittification than any other consumer good.

          • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            101·
            2 days ago

            That proves your point how exactly? You can come up with dozens of other products that try to charge a monthly fee to access features that used to be free. Or stuff it completely full of ads. Everything is going to shit.

            • NotSteve_English
              1·
              1 day ago

              The fact that you even need a (minimum) $10k thing to be able to go and pick up milk in any Canadian or American <75yo neighbourhood is a pretty wild concept ngl

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Re prices.

      This is what is pissing me off - I’m subsidizing car manufacturers by not being able to buy cheap Chinese cars, yet the assholes focus on expensive trucks I don’t need. If I’m socializing their losses - I don’t want them building cyber trucks, I want cheap affordable vehicles.