Cost of the car: fear of leaving the road. 10% of households with the least wealth spend 21% of their disposable income on transport, the 10% wealthiest, only 11%.
It has certainly become a luxury. Impossible to give it up to go to work, go shopping, pick up the children, go to a medical appointment. This France of the self-dependent has no other choice but to make do. She fixes things up, even if it means taking risks. Making your tires last to space out visits to the garage is not without danger. And when, at the end of the race, the engine dies or the technical inspection condemns the vehicle to scrapping, it's off theRoad.