There are plenty of better vehicles that aren’t outrageously expensive just because they can be.

I’ma turn into chief clappahoe if some bullshit like that shows up in my horse & carriage

They have parts that you have to replace right away so you don’t get stuck too. There are definite drawbacks.

Buy used!

You don’t need to be allergic to advertisement to want avoid shit like this. The fucking audacity of companies these days. There is no place they won’t try to shove these damn things to the detriment of every product, service, and personal moment. If they could put screens under your eyelids you’d have to watch drug ads one blink at a time and your dreams would be sponsored by AT&T.

I don’t recommend anyone buy a Jeep, not because of the ads but because they’re built like shit. Quality has been in free fall for decades while prices have skyrocketed. Death wobble issues (Wranglers), motor reliability out the window, rust, more rust, just not worth it.

I owned a 94 Cherokee and I loved it, and even though that 4.0L straight 6 had problems at least it would still run with bad piston rings, mysterious battery drain and holes in my radiator. The new ones just can’t compete.

Holy cow. They’ve done the impossible - they’ve found a way to make a Dodge into a shittier vehicle. I am awestruck.

All the brands of vehicle that have some of the worst historical reliability!

Not a chance. The new ‘infotainment’ clusters integrate necessary features like climate control to prevent aftermarket replacements in most vehicles. I honestly don’t know if any manufacturers even use the single and double DIN standards anymore.

Custom flashes are probably more likely given the system integration of the head unit. UBlock for your car. How crazy is that?

Jeep Renegade is a rebadged Fiat 500L.

It’ll be less than a decade

I work in the auto industry. Can confirm, Stellantis is in bad shape. I wouldn’t buy anything from them.

I had two Jeeps, first was originally my dad’s. It was an old shitbox. The other one was a somewhat old shitbox. 1998 & 2010. We dumped more time and money into them than I’d care to admit.

Our whole existence has turned into an Onion article.

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Dodge was owned by DaimlerChrysler in 99. I only know that because my family was in the car business and weren’t happy about that merger

Now hold on there, I’d let them do the ads and the vehicle tracking bs if the car was nice and it was free.

If I’m buying the car, there’s no fucking way.

Yup. Keeping old cars going on fossil fuels is so much better than millions of new cars being built every year, and in order for them to be built they ship them around the world to seperate facilities. I could go on and on

Because I’ve seen what people do with their vehicles. I bought my car new 13 years ago and I’ve been able to make sure it’s been properly maintained the entire time and no one else’s crud is all over the interior. I intend to keep it until it falls apart. Prior to that I had a truck I bought used and got maybe 5 years out of it before the transmission died with only medium mileage. I had maintained it but who knows what the person before me did with it.

That said if nothing changes with all this touchscreen infotainment shit I don’t know what I’ll do. I’ve hated every new vehicle I’ve been in the last few years.

Make that community. I’ll join up.

I mean fark.com is still kicking, last I checked. I feel like some of these old sites are the web equivalent of BIFL products.

I was just thinking the slashdot used to be a massive source of traffic across the internet.

And now it’s a sink. How times change.

Note to self: Don’t buy a Jeep.

And if the only way you remember that is by a strong hook and bass line, I’ve got you covered.

I dunno man. Harrison Ford made it sound like it was more rewarding than raising children and more important than world peace. You gonna turn your back on what seems to be something more fulfilling to Harrison Ford than religion just because it’s an inferior product and it’s pushing ads in your face like a free playstore game?

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Oh don’t be silly. It was YOU who got distracted! The laws are for thee, not me!

-The corporation, probably

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What’s really funny is that the only thing I even know about Barbara Streisand is that picture.

The Streisand Effect has immortalized her to a whole new generation.

I don’t understand how this is related to the Streisand Effect. The Streisand Effect is when you try to suppress unflattering info about yourself, and in the process you call attention to it, so now everyone knows. But we didn’t learn about this through Jeep trying to suppress the info, we just learned about it from people who saw the ads.

If the jeep even makes it to 36k.

There’ll be a special maintenance package that will be available. Then it’ll be ads for new Stellantis vehicles.

We need legislation against the unending encroachment upon our daily lives by advertisers.

I read a post somewhere where someone started getting this after they went over 36000 miles

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Oh this is the first time I’ve seen this wiki in the wild, neat!

This is the way.

Add in a magnetic charger phone mount and you’re golden in my opinion.

This is the way.

Damn, sweet ride dude! Congrats!

A bicyce at this point.

I bought a 2025 Kia Sportage before the new Trumpflation taxes went into effect. No ads at all. I would have been pretty damn mad to see ads. Weird that Jeep has decided to self destruct.

1999 Honda Civic.

Anything made before ~2015. You have a lot of great cars to choose from.

Is this real?? Do you have the source?

DRINK VERIFICATION CAN!

Wasnt there also something about showing ads while your show is paused now too?

I’m ready to go back to kodi.

Officer: Why were you speeding?

Me: Wanted to avoid ads.

Officer, “Why’d you run that red light?”

Me, “If I hear the Meow Mix jingle one more time I’m gonna snap!”

Jeep, having heard you mention a product, dutifully plays the relevant ad.

It’s only terrorism when poor people do it.

FAKE NEWS!!! Why would you want to pull an ancient lever mechanism if you can do it in a few taps on the touch screen. Sure, unless you have a premium subscription, you’ll have to watch a short video from our partners, tailored individually just for you.

They generally go into limp mode if they cannot report on you.

Could be like some of those TVs that have baked-in ads. So if you don’t have a data connection, they’ll just play the default ones.

Edit: I imagine that the car to prevent you from unplugging the antenna would probably do the classic, “I haven’t had a data connection in X amount of time, therefore I cannot verify the security of the device, so we’re going to prevent the use of autoplay.”

People can like jeeps bro calm down

Furthermore: Slashdot still exists? And it still has an active community in the comments!?

Lemmy alone hasn’t been enough to replace reddit for me; I should see if I still remember my old password…

Sorry I don’t check if a webpage requires 3rd party scripts before I post them for you. Leave it blocked and moved on I guess?

Honestly, fuck the whole thing, I’ll take my bike. With blackjack. And hookers.

Just you wait until the windshields become screens as well. Full windshield ads baybe!

Easy, they call their cars something like renegade or maveric and some idiots pay 80k for that shitbox

I’m on year 9 of my 10 year car plan. Current vehicle is supposed to become the kidmobile and I planned on a new one.

I won’t buy a new car though. If I do replace mine, it will be a used, unconnected car. I am so tired of iPads on wheels.

To be honest, I would just get an old car and fit a tablet into it

Mercedes also includes a number of items as a subscription in some countries. Some stuff is app related. Others are things like getting full use of your rear-steering wheels and unlocking extra horsepower.

Japanese manufacturers are not perfect but seem to be the least interested in doing this kind of anti-consumer nonsense, at least for now. I have been happy with every Mazda I’ve owned in the last decade (3 in total) for what it’s worth.

Toyotas are still good

Something to consider…

Elon may be going down a conservative rabbit hole these days, but this is the sort of thing Tesla would never ever ever do. And things like using the telematic system to sell your location and speed to insurance companies. Never happened on a Tesla. You may not like the guy, but the cars are fucking solid.

This only applies to GM EVs. Friend has a 2025 ICE Chevy which has both AA and CarPlay. Still dumb that the EVs don’t have it though.

Nor cousin luigi…

This, exactly this. The fact that they would even consider this rules them out for me forever.

I already had dozens of reasons to never buy a Jeep. This is just the cherry on a shitty cake.

It’s actually part of the Sirius XM package. So I think that all you have to do is not bother with Sirius XM.

Also a great way for me to never consider looking at a Ram, Chrysler, Dodge, or whatever the fuck else this corporation makes.

Yeah I’ve never heard anything good about jeeps in general. Now they are being run further into the ground by trying to become a luxury brand. At least when it was just a shitty jeep, it was still a somewhat cheap shitty jeep.

You know, I’ve got to give their marketing team props for managing to sell a vehicle with the engineering quality of a Saturn to people with more money than sense for a whole ass order of magnitude more than it’s worth. Game recognizes game.

dodge in general did not do well on realiability, Thing is they have neat engineering. So I loved the grand caravan but they killed it to try and get folks to pay toyota prices for their shit and its like no. You vehicles have to be ten grand cheaper so that you amoratize the repair bills.

Even 2077 didn’t have ads in your car.

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fuck me because my cars like 10 years old.

I wonder how hard it would be to make an open source car brain that can be a drop-in replacement for the commercial ones?

or better yet “You just ran over a single mother while missing her child! this segment brought to you by BetterHelp, you’re gonna need it!”

No, it’s considered distracted stopping. /s

Same damn diffence in my book, fuck Jeep for that shit!

This is why we need government that isn’t in the pocket of corporations.

We need something like lawmakers having to disclose their tax information annually. If you want to be in office and make millions you should be willing to put your morals on the review table.

they would have you watch ads without seatbelts and without air bags.

No, they would require you purchase these because their business can’t sell their products without them, but they’d make you pay a subscription for them to keep working, and when you stop paying the subscription, the car stops turning on until you pay your monthly airbag and seatbelt fee.

Love my 2013 Honda. Haven’t driven anything newer

Enshitification.

Early 2000s jap cars are unkillable, surplus of parts, and are not tracker spyware nests. Great little things for sure. My 90s turboed volvo is a far more temperamental beast, but I cherish her quirks :)

Ya, they’ve been getting bad press for a while now. Will never own one of those.

They’ll make it cheaper for awhile to justify it to the public and government and then slowly raise the price so that you’re paying full price AND watching ads.

Classic cars my man.

Get a horse, gonna be cheaper it seems. And you don’t have to pay for heated seats haha

Don’t worry, our choice for each election is capitalism and cruelty free capitalism, it’s always been a matter of time.

It will always be the case that given enough time a capitalist will find a way to convince the public to vote against self interest just a little, and then the snowball starts rolling.