First car and future of EV

[Asura]

I posted recently about buying my first car.

Since then I've thought about phasing out combustion engines, and what this would mean for me. I originally wanted to get my first car to be something cheap to run about to save money so then I can get a sportier car like a GT86 or if I'm brave an Evo.

But because of what's going to happen in 2030 and after, I thought that this would probably mean that the parts for these cars I want would be expensive, so trying to own these cars would probably be expensive or companies would most likely stop producing parts in efforts of the climate change issue.

Because of that, I thought that I should probably give up on wanting to own these sorts of cars and focus on buying a nice car as my first car that can last for a long time and get a sim-racing setup and focus on saving up for a house and then a probably a sports EV car.

What do you guys think is going to happen in terms of owning an ICE car after 2030/2035?

[ZX10R NIN]

Not an issue there will still be lots of ICE cars for sale in 2030 & beyond they just won't stop, parts will be around for a long time & people will still have ICE cars well into 2040 & beyond.

Buy the car you want now & enjoy & let the future sort itself.

[raspy]

ZX10R NIN said:

Not an issue there will still be lots of ICE cars for sale in 2030 & beyond they just won't stop, parts will be around for a long time & people will still have ICE cars well into 2040 & beyond.

Buy the car you want now & enjoy & let the future sort itself.

Completely agree with this viewpoint and advice.

[hyphen]

Asura said:

I posted recently about buying my first car.
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Your first car should be an ICE shed run on a pittance. It should have trouble starting up at times, long distance journeys should be a worry over whether it will make it or not. And so on.

Buy the cheapest european car with a few months mot on it. You will thank me later.

Not at the time, but later.

[samoht]

Asura said:

What do you guys think is going to happen in terms of owning an ICE car after 2030/2035?

People still drive horse-drawn carriages. The Brighton Run sees 115-year-old cars drive down the main roads out of London en masse. There are still cars of all ages on the roads.

The solution to global warming is to phase out new ICE cars, then in 15 years time, CO2 from cars will be a tiny fraction of what it is today. It's not about banning existing cars. There has always been an economy in which better-off people buy brand new cars, which then cascade down to those with less to spend (or in the case of PHers, those of us with champagne tastes and lemonade money). If the old cars were taken off the road there wouldn't be enough cars for everyone to get about, simple as that.

Cars like Evos with rising values aren't going anywhere, they're established as classics now just as Mk2 Jags were 30 years ago, with a broad fan base owning and maintaining them.

You talk about parts becoming unobtainable in future, in fact the opposite is happening with Nissan, Toyota and Mazda recently announcing they're restarting production of critical parts for their Nineties jewels, driven by rising interest in their cars.


So as ZX10 said, buy the right car for you today, and as the future unrolls you'll likely have chances to get behind the wheel of the kinds of cars you're keen on. If you can afford to maintain these aged turbo cars in future, they'll be there for you to own - they're not even that rare.

If you don't trust us, trust Harry - he's been a journo and worked in the industry, what he says rings true to me