“...we’ll make is SO UNAFFORDABLE you won’t have a choice but do do so on your own.”
As I understand it, that’s how the Japanese keep older cars off the road (and thus require people to keep buying new ones). As cars get older, they are required to pass ‘safety inspections’. The older the car, the more rigorous and expensive the tests become until the inspections and repairs required to pass them exceed the value of the cars themselves.
As I understand it, that’s how the Japanese keep older cars off the road (and thus require people to keep buying new ones). As cars get older, they are required to pass ‘safety inspections’. Yes, Japan makes it too expensive to own an old car, and people periodically make the choice to buy new.
Happening in China too. But the Chinese communist regime is forcibly taking old cars and motorcycles off the roads, by having police doing checkpoints to gather up old vehicles by forced confiscation. Supposedly to "encourage" people to buy new vehicles and promote growth of industry. Soon to come to the USA?