This one isn’t directly about cars, but it does go some way to explaining the mentality of people that buy giant trucks that have never been used for any sort of work. That is, people who live in cities but identify as “rural” people.
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I don’t think you can blame them for trucks being harder to work on, that’s happening to all vehicles. Even tractors…
I think I was specifically thinking if Rivian, with their monocoque built in such a way that if you sent the wing, the whole shell is pretty much a write-off, but what you say is irritatingly true.