seen a video on the youtubes suggesting the reason modern ICE cars are so shitty is because the system is still trying to force EVs. the propaganda and subsidies didn't work, so the new plan is to make ICE vehicles expensive, unreliable, and unrepairable

I don't think that is what's happening. it's just a bunch of negative trends all coming together at once. between the climate nigger mandates, excessive consolidation under a few parent companies, and a broad decline in engineering skill and ethics, this is the result

car manufacturers clearly are trying to kill the used market, but it's not to sell EVs