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Selling your data is a new revenue stream for automakers, and as a practical matter, you can't avoid it.
Even before data sales, though, a baseline, universal car never happened. Was there never a market or was a market never allowed to form?
Or perhaps the tech in a car really does advance faster than I understand? But then how would retro cars be street legal?
They aren't as profitable as luxury cars. Ford stopped making sedans because their margins are so much larger on SUV's and trucks. They keep eliminating the base trim model and making luxury versions the mew "standard" to keep making more and more money.