Could be survivorship bias: all the cheap old shit broke down and got scrapped long ago, only the good stuff survives. Like how you never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager anymore but there's plenty of 1993 Toyota Camrys still on the road.
Companies know that most people will buy their shit over the competitors if it's cheaper so they will work out how long something needs to last to be considered an acceptable performance and weigh that against the savings and so increased profit they can get by making it out of cheaper materials.
Though to be fair the constant added complexity that new machines need to have to justify buying new also gives them more stuff that can break.
Like how you never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager anymore but there’s plenty of 1993 Toyota Camrys still on the road.
I never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager, but I'm hard pressed to find a 2003 Toyota Camry, either. Like, don't get me wrong, I loved my 2004 Toyota Camry, but it definitely started to fall apart quick after the 10-year warrantee elapsed. Same with my 1992 Nissan. Sterling car, early on. Hard as a rock. Then it hit 100,000 miles and everything just started to fall apart.
All cars are definitely designed to last a certain finite time, but the 2nd generation Chrysler minivan had especially unreliable engines, transmissions, and electrical systems
Could be survivorship bias: all the cheap old shit broke down and got scrapped long ago, only the good stuff survives. Like how you never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager anymore but there's plenty of 1993 Toyota Camrys still on the road.
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Companies know that most people will buy their shit over the competitors if it's cheaper so they will work out how long something needs to last to be considered an acceptable performance and weigh that against the savings and so increased profit they can get by making it out of cheaper materials.
Though to be fair the constant added complexity that new machines need to have to justify buying new also gives them more stuff that can break.
I never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager, but I'm hard pressed to find a 2003 Toyota Camry, either. Like, don't get me wrong, I loved my 2004 Toyota Camry, but it definitely started to fall apart quick after the 10-year warrantee elapsed. Same with my 1992 Nissan. Sterling car, early on. Hard as a rock. Then it hit 100,000 miles and everything just started to fall apart.
I don't think that was an accident.
All cars are definitely designed to last a certain finite time, but the 2nd generation Chrysler minivan had especially unreliable engines, transmissions, and electrical systems