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Your Car Is Spying on You. Here’s Why It’s Costing You (except The Real King Gordan's car, which is from 2006) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've known this was a thing since GM first got sued.

I knew every manufacturer was doing it since there's too much money to be made.

I want a new car but I'm sticking to my 2010 Honda until it dies... Which might be awhile!

I just hope it lasts until the FTC and Congress do something about this. Unlikely though.

I need to reseach whatever I want as a replacement to hope I can just yank a fuse to kill the cellular connection. Then never go to a dealer for service.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

If your Honda dies, I'd recommend looking for a low miles Buick park avenue or lesabre (2006 or older). If they have the 3.8l v6 (not the 3.1), they're pretty bullet-proof, super cheap, comfortable, crash test well, and can go up to 300k miles with normal maintainence. Honestly the closest the US came to Toyota/honda car levels of reliability.