Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "Are OLD CARS more RELIABLE? Planned obsolescence and SUSTAINABILITY in the AUTO INDUSTRY" video.

  1. You are one of the only few intelligent car guys on YT that do not sprout BS. Do a video on the Mercer Engine developed during WWII. One of the best engines built horse power to weight ratio to this day!
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  2. Exactly. Edit - disregard my post. I am repeating him. Should have watched the full video. Also - Planned obsolescence is different than engineers designing a product for a certain amount of time. (Which seems to be 100-200k miles ideally). That distinction is lost on so many, and it drives me nuts. Then you have seemingly 80% of the world who suffer from survivorship bias. We only see things that survive, and don't think about everything else from history that didn't. On top of it all we don't see the care, and coddling someone did to a classic car to keep it running. With that said I will say manufacturers don't care about how hard something is to repair. Which I think is the average consumers fault. How many average consumers actually take the time to see how easy a car is to fix up when purchasing one? It wouldn't suprise me if it was single digits! So manufacturers build what consumers buy. Which is cheap as possible, with the best performance - and more complex.
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