Another "consumer" heard from. Unchecked consumptuon for the sake of it.
Really? My 'new' car is 9 years old. The first revision of it's chasis first appeared in production in 1978. It is more than up to the needs of today's driving. Even my 33 year old car would be up to task if wasn't for the incredibly low driver standards and incredibly rude and stupid things people do. If I upgrade the brakes (to something ordinary in 1975) then even that will go away.
You want to talk a waste of resources? New cars in favor of rebuilding old cars is an incredible waste of resources. While it takes more man hours to restore or restomod it takes far less resources. Do you have any understanding how much raw material and energy goes into the construction of a car? Let me put it this way, the energy it uses to go from place to place in it's life time might get to that level if it's well cared for and driven a lot.
The resources used to build a car compared to rebuilding would allow the old car to be driven for something like a decade to equal the consumption of replacing it with a new car.
