Comments on: How Cars Are Recycled

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:05:12 +0000

I’ve never owned an American car so can’t comment. I do know newer ones are supposedly a lot more reliable than they used to be. My old Italian Fiat did last 15 years though, passed down through the family.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:56:47 +0000

Make cars last longer! My European car cost a little more but outlast domestic ones almost two to one! Why can’t I get an American car to go more than five years? How much oil is saved if a car goes for one more year? I don’t need the ridiculous annual sheet metal changes either, Build it right in the first place, and quit screwing me over by making what I haven’t paid for yet, look old! The European models just don’t seem to age as fast, maybe that is what attracted me to them in the first place. I don’t want to be in syle as badly as I want to pay for the damn thing before it wears out!

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:45:04 +0000

Thanks Rachel, frankly it amazed me. Cars are a strange one – is it better to hang onto your old one, or get a newer more efficient one, but have the manufacturing environmental cost of that “added”?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:03:46 +0000

Awesome article. I must have missed it earlier. Good to know I have a green(er) option when my five-year-old car bites the dust, though hopefully that’s not for at least another five.