@esther The car advertising thing is really weird....

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@esther The car advertising thing is really weird. If I choose to watch a streaming service with ads I get an endless stream of repeated ads for cars.

But ... my car still works, so I don't need, and won't be buying a new one. Eventually my car will stop working, *then* I'll buy a new one.

This happens about once every twenty-something years. So about 99% of the models that have been advertised to me (and no doubt even some of the brands) won't exist any more by the time I next make a buying decision! What a waste.

And - a little hint for car advertisers here - when I *do* buy a new car I'm unlikely to buy one that's advertised in the UK by pictures of a left hand drive car being driven on foreign roads. If you can't even be arsed to make a UK version of the advertisement, how much care do I think you've put into getting the UK version of the car right?

Like 18 August at 10:53 | Wall-to-wall | Open on c.im

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@TimWardCam @esther
While individual manufacturers are trying to sell their particular model of car, as a whole they are selling car dependency to society in general.

18 August at 11:13 | Open on fosstodon.org

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@Naich @esther Oh, would that by why they don't show realistic footage of a UK spec car stuck in traffic on a UK motorway?

18 August at 11:36 | Open on c.im

joat

@TimWardCam @Naich @esther cars are stuck in traffic in north America too, probably more than in the UK since it's even more car-dependent, but the car advertising from wide open dusty desert roads makes you think otherwise

18 August at 13:25 | Open on mastodon.scot

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@joat @Naich @esther I went for a bicycle ride yesterday. I didn't cycle past very many queues of stuck cars ... but that may have been partly because my ride was mostly off road.

18 August at 13:27 | Open on c.im

jack will miss this server

@TimWardCam @esther I bought a car not quite on a whim earlier this year, but the trigger was a Mastodon post discussing the 2024 MG MG3 Hybrid hatchback. From that and a few YouTube reviews I got the impression it was a competitively-priced Fiesta replacement, low frills but solid

received it mid-May, the drivetrain broke at 2000 miles, and it's been back at the dealership for five weeks and counting

18 August at 12:49 | Open on strangeobject.space

Daniel McLaury

@TimWardCam @esther There's less money to be made off of you than off of the kind of people who replace their car every three years to keep up with the Joneses, so the advertisers really don't care about you that much.

18 August at 21:15 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@danielmclaury @esther But these days ... three years isn't even long enough to read and understand the manual for the computers in a new car!

18 August at 21:15 | Open on c.im

Daniel McLaury

@TimWardCam It's true, my car has this weird three-state "on, off, kinda on" setting that the power button sort of cycles through in a way that I don't 100% understand.

18 August at 21:21 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@danielmclaury Went round to see a mate several years ago now. Found him sitting in his new car in his garage trying to make sense of the manual.

18 August at 21:22 | Open on c.im