As much as I appreciate that added bit of flash and glamour of chrome, the health problems from dealing with that shit are nassssssty. I also feel like the younger generations of purchasers are looking less for chrome than my generation.
I’m 30, it’s not that I don’t want chrome, it’s more like I don’t care either way and I’m not paying more for it because I just don’t care about it
It has another danger too, when it glints in the sunlight and blinds other drivers.
Chrome was always a bad idea.
Now we’ve got those stupidly bright headlights instead.
The US feds recently approved automatically adjusting headlamps that point down at the road, so hopefully the current nonsense will get better. Europe has had these for a while.
I’m in Europe and I still get blinded by modern SUVs with LED headlights constantly, having auto levelling headlights is nice and all but when the headlights themselves are at eye level for drivers in anything lower than a landrover it doesn’t change much
Which will make cars even more expensive… unlike making them smaller, lower and more fuel efficient… But who cares about all that right?
You know we can make cars smaller and more fuel efficient and give them safer headlights, right? It’s not an either/or situation.
Will they use Firefox?
What are they going to use? Firefox?
with ublock origin, yes
They saw how the cybertruck is super sharp and can cut you so they intend to use Edge.
When was the last time real chrome was on any of their cars? All chrome-like pieces on my old assed Jeep are shit assed plastic.
At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.
Are they going to stop making cars with huge front hoods which are hugely dangerous to pedestrians? Or stop marketing their cars as if they’re meant to be driven dangerously?
At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.
Suuurree they are. Hasn’t chromium getting more expensive over the past couple years? I’m guessing this sudden concern about the environment and the health of the workers will save them quite a bit of money in the long term.
Still, credit where credit is due, at least this cost cutting measure that actually has positive benefits for once.
Here in Detroit, Stellantis just asked for their factory to be allowed to pollute more, despite neighbors pushing back at how much they already pollute.
Bingo, and California moving to outright ban chrome plating shops. It’s all about money, always was.
This is just like Apple and Samsung removing the charger from the cellphone box and claiming it’s for the environment when in reality it’s because now they can charge you $30+ more to buy one separately that comes in a second box.
Stellantis consistently builds some of the worst cars in the world and have been ignoring electrification for too long. They have a dim future once the Charger/Challenger are gone and this is just a cheap trick to attempt to revise their image.
They really should make polished aluminum a thing. It’s so hot looking if you take care of it.
What exactly is involved in taking care of it?
If it involves more than a couple trips through the automatic car wash a year I’d personally rather just forego the shiny bits altogether.
You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.
Or acid wash whitens them, but I don’t like that look, since it isn’t mirror finish.
That’s very surprising to me, I’d always assumed tankers were stainless steel. Do they have to have a lining inside?
They would have to now days. I don’t t think they originally did. My understanding is the stainless steel ones rust quickly.
Stainless doesn’t really rust out as most of the iron is gone.
