These types of things aren’t put into products to test if people will buy them. They are put into products to test to see if it brings the company more profits. Less people can buy them but that won’t matter if it can make them more money.
On top of that this company doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are other car manufacturers that will test the same subscription models as well. They follow each others leads and slowly normalize these new methods of profit extraction in collaboration with one another.
It’s a lie that they are competing for your business. They are all working to make as much profit as possible and do absolutely follow the next method of doing so introduced by their “competitors”.
The only thing they are testing is if it will negatively hurt next quarters earnings. So it needs to be introduced slowly by each manufacturer and promoted as a “feature” first. Then, as time goes on they can push it more and more as it’s normalized in the market.
I had a Jetta in that era. Died after just 135,000 miles. Family was also into other German cars. They all had expensive issues. We switched to Japanese cars and stopped worrying about car repairs. Unfortunately, there is no real reason to buy a German car unless you’re hoping someone notices the car you drive. When I see people driving German cars, I mostly see people too rich to care about car repairs or a sucker.
I hope nobody buys these things.
To think I used to respect VW and I even owned a 2002 Jetta.
These types of things aren’t put into products to test if people will buy them. They are put into products to test to see if it brings the company more profits. Less people can buy them but that won’t matter if it can make them more money.
On top of that this company doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are other car manufacturers that will test the same subscription models as well. They follow each others leads and slowly normalize these new methods of profit extraction in collaboration with one another.
It’s a lie that they are competing for your business. They are all working to make as much profit as possible and do absolutely follow the next method of doing so introduced by their “competitors”.
The only thing they are testing is if it will negatively hurt next quarters earnings. So it needs to be introduced slowly by each manufacturer and promoted as a “feature” first. Then, as time goes on they can push it more and more as it’s normalized in the market.
I had a Jetta in that era. Died after just 135,000 miles. Family was also into other German cars. They all had expensive issues. We switched to Japanese cars and stopped worrying about car repairs. Unfortunately, there is no real reason to buy a German car unless you’re hoping someone notices the car you drive. When I see people driving German cars, I mostly see people too rich to care about car repairs or a sucker.