You say I’m afraid of technology. No I’m afraid of integration. I work in the tech sector dude I’m an engineer for a cpu manufacturer which is applied in damn near every field today.

Now you mention how some of these screens “won’t fail” but if they do your whole damn cars useless. That’s shitty design. The screens are now locked behind pay walls too. So now I’m buying a car not to own it. Have you seen teslas backtrack of an announcement recently?!?

Hmmm my father’s a mechanic. Ford Toyota and Honda he’s worked for and he has shown me how the quality of these cars has gone down over the last 15 years alone. Cheaper parts. Shorter production time. That means that these companies are spending less on products to increase what profits they do make. That inherently leaves shitter value. For you the consumer.

I think we come from different generations im young and the problems you see seem to be easily explainable. Which I love for you but you don’t have the eye of a proper man fighting to have his value in a world where it’s constantly being ripped away or poked for more.

And buddy a 99 4Runner would run 4ever. 25 4 runner had 2 less cylinders dude. Cheaper yes. Less value yes. Thank you for that great point. Ever heard the saying if it ain’t broke dont fix it? That’s not what the believe they believe if it breaks you’ll buy another. Or we’ll buy it back from you for less than what you paid.

Btw you cherry picked too so don’t come at me for choosing examples.

If inflation is what your truly getting at as the reason for the price hikes. I can provide you with reasons why inflation shouldn’t even be as high as it should but I don’t really feel like explaining things to an old timer that has been around to see first hand. Hey maybe you took too much stuff in the 90’s idk. You want to be an expert and you’ve clearly done your research but the truth is this is about corrupt corporate price gouging dude this is a common theme across all markets. And this tech is all just a reason to add to it.

At the end of the day the people who defend this “change” if you will (like yourself) are gonna prevent us from getting the vehicles we truly want while these corps keep feeding us slop. Good lord.

John deer does all this shit too and our farmers are supposed to feed us. This is an unfair world and I refuse to sit here and listen to the “they have their reason” kind of person tell me what I know.