Funkstain wrote:no ownership implies (to me) orders of magnitude fewer cars needing to be manufactured in total, with more of a temporary on demand model (why have a car stuck on a driveway 50%-75% or more of the time, which you're paying for by the minute, when you can just summon one locally within minutes?)
Dinostar77 wrote:Still a helluva of lot of people out there who buy cars that are 15 years old / bangers / cheap runarounds because thats what they can afford or are willing to pay. None of this new shared ownership stuff will apply to them, becuase they will carry on buy 15 year old cars. I should know im one of them.
Cos your essentially throwing your money away the same as NetflixDinostar77 wrote:Lol, posh rental. It has it place though. New motor, normally trouble free driving for a few years. Any issues get leasing company to sort it out. Then when you get bored get something else on lease. If you have the money spare and are happy to spend £200-£500 a month and build a deposit again for the next car lease then why not.
Yes and no the point is you normally own something have something To show formistercrayon wrote:All car owning is throwing money away.
The laws about electric cars is that no cars can be 100 percent non renewable. You can see a lot of token effort hybrids (light hybrids) like the ignis and I think the new puma.
poprock wrote:I’m probably missing something somewhere, but in my understanding the whole system has a big gap in the long term. The drive towards leasing increases the number of people driving around in new cars. Those cars don’t stay new. What happens to them? They drop on to the second hand market as ‘nearly new’ cars. Three years old, generally. Those three-year old cars are still quite expensive, so dealers offer them on finance. Second-hand car buyers are taking on debt. There aren’t as many second-hand car buyers, because more and more people are leasing new cars instead. So presumably there is a surplus of second-hand cars. So where is that surplus? And why isn’t it driving the cost of second-hand cars down? Are older cars, say six-year old plus, largely just dropping out of the market and heading straight to scrap? (And if so, should we all be getting into the scrap industry as a moneyspinner?)
JMW wrote:I have a sneaking suspicion, as I try to ‘do the right thing’ by getting a new Leaf, that it’s made it worse. But it has Apple CarPlay, so I bury those thoughts.
yourfavouriteuncle wrote:The banks that over corrected on mortgage limits and who they’ll now lend to had to find themselves a new ridiculously profitable revenue stream and that was the auto market.
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