Why don't automakers build cars that can last a human lifetime without major servicing?

Why not just build a no bullshit car that is simple, efficient and focuses on maximum reliability/durability?

>>28528895 (OP)
you complain that they don’t do this but your pic is a car that does?

>>28528895 (OP)
Automakers aren't working to make cars, they're working to MAKE MONEY.

>>28528895 (OP)
>>28528895 (OP)
“Just”

If it's so easy (according to you) why don't you start making and selling such indestructible cars yourself ?

>>28528895 (OP)
>last a human lifetime without major servicing
That's not how moving parts work bud

>>28528904
It is becoming difficult to get parts for this generation, and the pencil pushers discriminate against cars this old now (at least in the EU).

>>28528906
>why don't you start making and selling such indestructible cars yourself ?
I am just one man with a garage full of a winston cup car chassis.

>>28528905
every illogical action that you can think of when it comes to resource management can be explained by shareholder primacy
if you were on your own in a sandbox world obviously you'd be making the best thing you possibly can

>>28528908
just make it easy to get at the parts then like take apart put back together attraction

Capitalism.
One can cope, but when a society's foundation economic system requires infinite novelty and planned obsolescence, you're not having good shit.

>>28528938
Communism is not better at all.

Guess how damn hard it was in communist countries to buy parts for cars , (even ordinary bread in the store caused kilometer-long queues).

>>28528950
>instantly goes into a melty
>whataboutism, about comparing to retarded russkies on top of that
Not that anon and I hate that church-burning faggot, but you proved him right Shlomo.

>>28528920
So, a major service?

>>28528920
So a tube chassis? Yeah dude you're asking for a kit car.

>>28528895 (OP)
Same reason they don't build any cars that can approach 100mpg despite not needing any new technology to do it -- they control the means of production and they want to do what makes them more money.

>>28528950
The cars produced in the Eastern bloc were generally not good, but the logic behind their production was sound.

>>28528895 (OP)
Because no complicated machine lasts that long without major servicing, especially something completely exposed to the elements.

>>28528895 (OP)
just buy a lexus before every engine went towards i4/v6 + turbo.
it's that simple. built to last.

>>28528895 (OP)
Because they would sell one to every person in their market and promptly go out of business because they wouldn't sell any more.
Because cars get used in a variety of ways, from the retiree in Arizona that does 1,000 miles per year to the medical transport vehicle in the rust belt that does 150,000 miles a year

>>28528895 (OP)
>>28528920
Because making an engine or even an entire car that can be easily taken apart and put together by a retard wrenchlet that couldn't assemble an Ikea shelf to save his life would result in an absolutely abhorrent vehicle that would be too slow to even be usable.

>>28528906
The problem with any Cummings is that it is absolutely guaranteed that the rest of the vehicle rota out from under it in a third of its lifetime

>>28528956
No he's right. Cars were rarer, harder to repair, and generally in poorer shape

>>28528895 (OP)
>Why don't automakers build cars that can last a human lifetime without major servicing?

Planned obsolescence.

>>28528895 (OP)
Well they were trying up until '65 when the currency began transitioning to fiat. If you look at the price of gold, and the price of real estate, everything else has gotten unbelievably cheap, we're just too poor to notice it. Pre 1965 cars are absolute tanks. It's pretty common for early 60's slant-6 chryslers to go half a million miles without engine or tranny rebuilds assuming the fluids are changed on schedule. The problem at the time was rustproofing was (and still is) expensive, and the fact that fluids need changed annoyingly often.
Even still, 90's hondas can go a million with minimal maintenance, there's one in a museum with over a million miles and all original non-moving parts with the exception of a new water pump before the car was retired. If we get our shit together we could easily have nearly maintenance-free cars capable of lasting for decades and millions of miles, it'll just takes some cremation ovens

>>28529909
***the honda has original non-CONSUMABLE parts except the water pump, not non-moving lol

>>28528895 (OP)
anything with moving parts eventually needs to be serviced.

>>28529909
Inflation poisons everything.

>>28528950
but he didn't say communism