Easy, they call their cars something like renegade or maveric and some idiots pay 80k for that shitbox
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Disgusting. Why would anyone pay for that?
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 4 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wanted a Jeep at some point. One of the nicer-looking models. A sand-yellow one, almost as good as a black g-wagon.
But yes, times change. I wanted one from the early 90s, maybe.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just you wait until the windshields become screens as well. Full windshield ads baybe!
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In USSR, despite all its downsides, there was a huge upside - magazines like “Техника - молодежи” and various educational brochures of the practical kind, aimed at explaining how to really make something.
And also a certain culture of hobbies associated with that, I guess all the energy from boredom went there.
So - I’ve read about competitions of hobby-crafted cars then. Like 20 guys would make some (like half of it would be something used in usual Soviet cars, think Reagan and the 10 years joke) parts of a car in their garages and apartments (and even at work, if they worked on some factory, for example ; in general workplace in USSR was, eh, a bit more permanent of an association, so the border between personal life and work, including tools, was fuzzy), then assemble them.
I think that could even be registered as a legal means of transportation. At least from what I’ve heard there is (or was) a surprisingly liberal part of Russian laws, allowing you to register almost anything as a car and get a number, with some criteria passed. Maybe these two things are related.