Idk where you’re from, but in 2005 I was driving an 85 Caprice Classic with a v8, rear wheel drive and steel body panels
Cars today use insane amounts of plastic, like even my favorite car design of all time, the BMW 3 series E46 chassis, uses a pressurized coolant system with a plastic reservoir. It’s guaranteed to fail because plastic becomes brittle over time.
In engineering, there’s a concept called “wear parts.” Wherever two parts come together in motion, one has to be of less hardness than the other. You choose one to wear out and be replaced occasionally, and ideally that’s the easier part to change.
In continually variable transmissions, you have two pulleys that look like a yo-yo squeezing a chain belt to change the effective “gear ratio” without gears. You’d think a belt would be easier to replace, right? But the belt isn’t the wear part. They tear apart the pulleys that hold them, making CVT’s guaranteed to fail
Also, FYI, the term “planned obsolescence” comes from 1930’s England, where it was proposed as a means to escape the Great Depression.
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