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  • comador @lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese salesEnglish
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    44 minutes ago

    OK I don’t know most of those services.
    That’s because they vary from country to country.

    VW Flex is a car rental service, or some sort of car sharing program, why are you mad that VW offer such a service? If you don’t want it, you are 100% free not to rent a car from VW or anyone else.
    SIXT isn’t even VW but BMW!

    When I briefly looked at an ID.4 and ID Buzz they insisted, even though it was untrue, that VW Flex and SIXT+ were the only options for me to lease… SIXT+ is used here for Porsche and certain VW models, but is more a rental service than a leasing service. That’s definitely true.

    I can see you may have a point about some of the other items.
    But here we don’t have those, but the app is also very limited here, and I cannot lock the doors of my car remotely, something I found weird, since it must be extremely easy to make.
    Navigation is however included without charge. And there are no subscriptions.

    Yup. Again, this is VW getting away with whatever they can where they can.

    I have no idea what the points below are supposed to be about. Except VW works fine with unions in Europe, but USA has no protections of unions, so blame your government and fellow Americans for that one too. Absolutely fight for unions, If I were American I would support a unionized brand as well.

    Well, I have family in Frankfurt, DE that also hates VW as of late. They just announced for example they’re laying 50k people off worldwide… not because they’re suffering, but because of lower than expected profits. Post tax profits dropped? boohooo. Eat shit VW.

    You make some good points, but I don’t get why you start out with points in both sections that seem pretty stupid non issues, apart from diesel-gate of course being an issue, but since everybody did it, you can’t really use that for anything.

    I have no excuse for this other than it was an energetic response full of emotion that prevented better articulation lol.

  • comador @lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese salesEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    USA, any VW dealership:

    • VW Flex
    • SIXT+
    • Remote access sub
    • Navigation Sub
    • Plus Navigation Sub
    • ID.3 power upgrade sub

    Lies:

    • Dieselgate
    • Union busting Tennessee
    • German zero impact factories
    • Belgium manufacturing plant pollution

    Take your pick. VW has been failing for so long that they moved to subscriptions to pick up the bottom line from their remaining customers, then complain no one wants their vehicles.

    VW: Once the king of affordable and reliable, now just garbage.

    May they fail miserably and fade into obscurity in my lifetime.

    Sincerely, a VW hater since Dieselgate.