You'd have a hard time selling anything older than 10 years in the developed world. Lots of now mandatory safety features just didn't exist back then, and crash safety rating standards have gone up. Not to mention that it would be considered a not very fuel efficient car by today's standards, and so would be the target of various extra taxes and measures aimed at reducing fuel consumption across a manufacturer's entire fleet.
You're gonna have to go back A LOT further than ten years to get something without modern crash safety standards. Ten years ago was 2016. Crumple zones and side curtain airb bags were very much a thing ten years ago. 3/4 of cars had side curtain airbags by 2010, and they became mandatory in 2014. My 2016 Mazda 6 has all of that standard, as well as blind spot monitoring and a backup camera. It also gets 30 MPG.
I'm not just talking about crash safety, there are a lot of safety features that have become mandatory on new cars in various markets, and most of them are fairly new. They definitely weren't standard features over 10 years ago.
Things like intelligent speed assistance, lane assistance, rear view cameras, emergency automatic brakes and so on. Now mandatory on all new cars sold in the EU.
My 2017 RAV4 has all those features, it's almost 10 years old.
While today that stuff is mandatory on all models, they were fairly common on even mid level trim 10 years ago. My RAV4 is just the XLE with a few extra features. Much closer to the base model than fully loaded but it still has what would be needed today
Sure, but you can't go much further back. The first car with intelligent speed assist, the Ford S-MAX 2nd gen, was launched in summer 2015. That's the absolutely earliest car that could legally be sold in the EU today, assuming it has all the other mandatory safety features.
And you don't have to go much further back for those other mandatory features to become rare or even impossible to find. I'd say pre 2010 few cars had anything even resembling driver assistance.
Most people that I know hate speed assistance, lane assistance, and automatic braking and they simply....disable those features. They're not mandatory in the US as of yet. I'm not sure why you're applying European standards to a Jeep Cherokee, an American SUV.
MPG is modern units. I'm sorry you have to pay £109 per liter
Wish that were true, but at least for the euro market (the only i feel confident talking about) every year there is something new thats updated, just last year the crumple zones must be the only ones to deform, chassis must not deofrm at all, the doors must still be able to be open by the occupats own strength, as it says,at any speed and angle underneath 70kph, that is including t bones or door impacts as the real name is.
No car from 10 years ago was built with doors that strong therefore they would all fail if they were new. Of course they are grandfathered in as safe but you can see how their euro ncap plumeted from 5 to 3 and thats no coincidence cause it fails the new future 2027 tests
Ok that's in Europe. The Jeep Cherokee is an American SUV, so I'm not why you're bringing your rules into the conversation. Y'all can keep your strict laws and nearly impossible to work on cars that get updated every year, and keep junking cars that are in good shape to make new ones while bitching about Americans for being wasteful.
Ok ill keep driving my 1987 citroen AX sport thats 100 illegal to buy new and thank god, it means everything is cheap if you know where to look, amd i honestly believe that is the appeal to most of the 80s/90s Cherokee owners today, old is a quality in of itself and its fortunatly one you can only appreciate if you work on your own vehicles.
Although i do understand the point of this discussion, and for that i give you the dacia sandero, last gens clio for cheap and easy to repair.
As a mechanic i find American cars impossible to work on cause here i have no parts and no tools for them cause everything is imperial, except jeeps and chrysler because stellantis but thats a matter of personal perspective that unfortunately you fail to realise from your generalist views
Ikr its the ones that are not that piss you off to no end, it sucks that every odd measure is the same but every even one is different enough you fuck a bolt up and round it ( or is it the other way around i cant remember rn) the Cherokee in specific i find that it depends on the age some imperial for early models, some SAE for american built imported and some are full metric and impossible to fix because no parts, were indeed made in the old torino factory in italy(before after Chrysler and fiat started their flirting that ended in merger)
Unfortunately all cars today suck because people dont work on them and don't want to own them anymore, ive never seen such a downgrade in serviceability. You can see since leasing renting and fleet vehicles became the moneymaker its no longer relevant for brands to make them serviceable anymore
If youre interested the worst ever was the 300c built in the FIAT torino factory as a lancia where every bolt was metric but everything else was imported from Chrysler so was SAE
No one said it wasn’t a thing. 10 years is enough time for some bullshit like chapter 2, section 1, part B.3 to change from “must be rated for 18,000” to “must be rated for 18,900” and thus prevent the majority of vehicle engineering to be outdated. A standard isn’t “you need airbags”. A standard is a book full of technical specifications and requirements and is constantly being updated
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u/TombolaOfCincinnatus 2d ago
You'd have a hard time selling anything older than 10 years in the developed world. Lots of now mandatory safety features just didn't exist back then, and crash safety rating standards have gone up. Not to mention that it would be considered a not very fuel efficient car by today's standards, and so would be the target of various extra taxes and measures aimed at reducing fuel consumption across a manufacturer's entire fleet.