On: BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car's features

[bsder]

> It’s crazy how Americans are willing to drop $30-40K (that’s average?) for a vehicle. But I digress.

Market segmentation means you don't have a lot of choice.

A Toyota Camry (a quite basic mid-size car) starts at $25K. Even some of the cheapest cars sit at almost $20K and their safety ratings at US freeway speeds are often not great combined with being underpowered.

The fact that people have to drive on US freeways a lot means that you can't just engineer a small, slower speed car and call it a day.

[EricE → bsder]

$25K over 10 years isn’t terrible. People who feel they have to buy a new car every 2 to 4 years only have themselves to blame.

Then again, god bless them. If it wasn’t for all of them there wouldn’t be so many good used cars for me to choose from :)