I was watching YouTube back in 2025 when a car commercial popped onto the screen showing what they claimed to be a 2027 vehicle. Now, wait a minute. You mean to tell me that it's perfectly legal for a car manufacturer to release a vehicle two years ahead of time? How does that make any sense? It's consumer fraud on steroids.
If I want to buy a 2027 model year vehicle, I want it to be manufactured no earlier than January of 2027. Otherwise, I feel as though the car manufacturer is ripping me off by selling me a vehicle that is two years older than what is presented to me.
In other words, if, say, you were to purchase a 2027 model year vehicle in February of 2028, you're likely not purchasing a vehicle that was manufactured a couple months earlier, but rather you could be purchasing a vehicle that has been in existence for as much as three years. Somehow that doesn't sit very well with me.
Consumer-protection laws here in the United States should prohibit a vehicle from being given a model year any later than the actual year that it gets manufactured. I don't even think that it is right for car manufacturers to be advertising 2027 model year vehicles on television and on the Internet currently, when we are barely into the year 2026. Such a practice reeks of deception.
It is bad enough that car commercials get to be progressively stupider and stupider every year. Moreover, when you're watching television, it seems that these car commercials are back to back; and I know for a fact that hardly anyone finds them to be entertaining. There are way too many of them on television and on the Internet.
If these scoundrels in our car companies could at least be honest in their consumer-related practices, I would have more respect for them than I do now. I don't think that requesting that they be honest about their model years is too much for anyone to ask of them.
There should at least be laws that force car manufacturers to provide information to car buyers about the exact date that a car's construction is completed. If they're going to give a car they manufactured in 2023 a year model of 2028, anyone who buys that car has the right to know that it has been sitting on the shelf for five years.
Is there a shelf big enough to house a car? LOL! In any event, you get the message.
Car manufacturers here in the United States rip off consumers enough. They should at least have some set of rules that they have to follow instead of being able to do whatever they please at the consumers' expense.
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