I don't believe this.

In France, we have mandatory car checkup every few years where they test the pollution from the back of the car.

My old car, made in early 90 barely emitted more pollutant than regulation allow.

Ended up buying a Volkswagen Passat, very impressive it emitted a lot less. Then dieselgate happened... Now it's barely under what the regulation allow.

Keep your old polluting car, in the grand scheme of things it is better than buying a new one that end up polluting much more to build than what you would gain in everyday emission.

After seeing how much safer new cars are in crash tests, old cars don't look so good anymore.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/1994_nissan_truck.sh... https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2024_Nissan_Frontier...

That old truck will pollute less in its lifetime than the amount of energy it takes to produce a modern automobile, let alone the cumulative energy spent to sustain a consumer base ready to sign a new lease every 36 months for the latest and greatest in aggregated conflict minerals + spyware on wheels, it just does it all over the poors someplace else instead of where you live.

Don't care. They can entice us as much as they want. We will not comply. Some people love rolling coal for that reason.

(My semi-daily driver is over 50 years old.)

So? Not the consumer's fault that those improvement are bundled with user-hostile bullshit. Some of it government-mandated bullshit too.