Swasticar is good! In my mind, I was calling it TeSSla.
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RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
No thank you. I don’t want a swasticar.
I’d love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can’t buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
quokka1@mastodon.au 2 months ago
@angrystego @RangerJosey pretty sure we agreed on WankerPanzer
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
VW cars are built by Uyghurs, which, last I checked, are a surpassed minority in China, that has to work under slave-like conditions.
But I guess most cars are produced like this.
nednobbins@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nobody builds cars under slave like conditions. It’s just not possible. Modern car factories are highly automated plants that require skilled operators. In the case of the VW Xinjiang, that was QC inspectors. There’s no way a hole in the wall car factory using outdated labor practices can come close to competing against modern production.
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You can be a skilled Person and still work und slave like conditions. That has nothing to do with each other…
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’m talking about the ones made in Mexico.
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yea, it seems like beetle is one of the few models not produced in China (according one propter of chatGPT, so some salt is required 😆)
It seems to me, that the cars needed in the biggest quantities and Budget EVs are produced in China.
Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean this style of beetle? Nazi Germany unveiling of the new beetle 1930s
I don’t like cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The massive, massive difference is that the VW Beetle wasn’t a shitbox for rich people. It’s okay to say that once in a great while. the Nazis, despite being horrific in most ways, did have an idea that wasn’t bad and this was that. The VW Beetle was an affordable car and if something went wrong with it, you could probably fix it yourself with only a small amount of automotive knowledge. You really don’t even need to give Hitler credit for that considering he basically just told Ferdinand Porsche to do all the hard work.
Not so much the Cybertruck. It was Elon’s baby from the beginning and he took a very close personal interest in it.
The Cybertruck is a bad idea. Even for rich people. It’s been demonstrated over and over again.
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Importantly, the success of the Beetle also came after the Nazis. They built the factory using confiscated union funds as well as having people pay instalments for cars which they would never get, built two or three Beetles, then switched production over to war-time production, Kübelwagen. After the war the unions effectively took over the whole plant… and also bought a couple of farms to make sure workers and families had enough to eat. Most of that is gone now but they still have their own butchery, VW part number 199 398 500 A is a saussage.
Sonor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
this is beyond amusing :D
buttfarts@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Cybertruck = Homer car
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except the Homer Car actually worked properly. It just looked stupid and had stupid “features” no one wanted but Homer.
The Cybertruck isn’t even that good.
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 2 months ago
But they also scammed people into spending money on a Volkswagen that they never delivered and took the money to support the war effort.
Carighan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
VOLKSwagen!
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I know exactly what I said.