Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $...
by ineedasername on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:05PM
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The problem I see is the taxes themselves. If they are making purchase and use of vehicles p prohibitively expensive, they are too high and are inhibiting growth and quality of life. Other car companies probably already reach a higher cost-quality balance than Turkey will get. There's something to be said for the economic stimulus of home grown industry, but you can also get a lot of that by working with a big manufacturer on a custom design built for & in your own country.
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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $...
by megablast on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:05PM
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> they are too high and are inhibiting growth and quality of life
If they are making cars more expensive, they are improving quality of life. Less death, less pollution, less huge cost of extra traffic and roads and hospitals.
Turkey has a fantastic bus system with very comfortable buses more like airplanes (they have a host to bring tea, and have tv's in every chair).
Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $...
by Marsymars on Friday December 27, 2019 @11:32PM
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> If they are making cars more expensive, they are improving quality of life. Less death, less pollution, less huge cost of extra traffic and roads and hospitals.
That's assuming that they're bringing the expense of cars more in line with their true cost including negative externalities. Once they're increasing the expense beyond that, it's a net QoL decrease.