Comment on Dissing car brands is console wars for boomers
HollandJim@lemmy.world 10 months agoLocation is irrelevant … That was choice by Hyundai/Kia, to cheap out and remove the immobilizers.
Comment on Dissing car brands is console wars for boomers
HollandJim@lemmy.world 10 months agoLocation is irrelevant … That was choice by Hyundai/Kia, to cheap out and remove the immobilizers.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which they only did in the States. Nowhere else. Because they could. Because they have to be competitive with US manufacturers, who are all pulling the same shit
There’s a good reason US-made cars don’t sell well outside the US
HollandJim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nope - US manufacturers are NOT pulling the same shit. Kia/Hyundai are the only brand in the US without immobilizers because they thought they could skimp there instead of a posher interior or more electro-gadgets. It was a stupid, stupid call and it should impact their reputation. If they skimp on something as elemental as security, where else have they skimped…?