I truly believe car makers have forgotten how to make cars.
Cars of the 80’s and 90’s are far more dependable than new cars today.
Actually, they haven’t forgotten anything. They are deliberately and purposefully building crap so buyers spend more money on repairs and are forced to buy new cars in 4-5 years because the old ones are irreparable.
We Americans need to quit buying into their trickery. Keep your 20 year old cars. Spending $60,000 for a car that spends most of it’s time in a shop waiting on parts that are on back order is insane.
It’s getting to where the older cars can’t get parts..............
In Arizona, the plastic and rubber parts are shot from the heat.
25 years is the magic number in Texas. No environmental testing in the urban counties. (Except San Antonio - apparently no point requiring it there for obvious reasons.)