Automotive red pills thread

Automotive red pills thread

>Your car should run for at least 1 million miles, that is what it was designed to do.

Unless you own anything european, which was designed to last 10k miles out of warranty.

>that is what it was designed to do
:^)

>2017
>This is a car

Automobiles have been disposable objects since they first had ECUs fitted. Now they are consumer electronic products. It only has to last the warranty period and apex-consumers upgrade that shit before it expires.

This is a car

don't Mercs have those little mileage badges? Theoretically they could run for 1 million miles.

I believe they might.

The only cars I would ever want to take to a million miles are the old Mercedes and old Lexus cars.

Some of the Toyotas and Honda's of the time might be able to manage as well.
I might even include some of the good and old American muscle as some of those engines were just bulletproof with matinence.

Mercedes and Lexus just used big destressed engines that could run forever.

But it is by far more profitable to make cars that only last 5 years

but in theory if you make a car that lasts 20 years for close to the same cost as your competitor that last 5 years...

We need to make this a thing. Get the competition pushing for reliability and longevity.

Why?

Do you really think that everyone owning safety equipment that is 30 years out of date and engines that are 30 years less efficient is a good thing?

It's better then throwing all that shit every 5-10 years and buying a completely new one. So it's way more efficient to use an old engine than to have a new one built.

Plus safety is 90% driver and 10% the vehicle. Especially in America we need to have strict laws on who can drive. And that's coming from someone who hates how we are losing more our rights.
There are just too many people that are terrible drivers and text or drive. It's one areas that needs to be mandated because a vehicle is way more deadly than an assault rifle.

moms uncle ran a b5.5 passat for almost 900k km

many saab 900 have reached 1million and can keep counting...

old civics, starlets, taxi mercs, focus 1st gen are goat

I hope 90s GM half tons can go that far. Mines halfway there, haven't had any serious issues.

1.9 tdi?

>built to last 1 million miles

explain these pieces of shit, their trannies die at 60k, headgaskets blow every time you hit a pothole, and the peripheral electronics die every time you blink

Still butthurt cuz ur poor huh?

From what he's saying it sounds like he's owned or owns one. Why would he be poor?

I have a relative with an integra type-r. It's their daily driver and they always keep up to date with manufacturers recommended maintenance. I drove it around a few days ago. It has 193k miles, but still drives like a new car.

Tinfoil hat wearing motherfucker. I bet you think company owners drive ultra high mpg hybrid cars too.

Just think Theseus' ship and it will lmao

this disgusting level of samefag has got to cease.

literally any diesel BMW, Benz or Audi older than 15 years will have at least 500k-1m km's in Europe

Are you ret???

I'll explain you: they actually are built to last one million. you're a retard or a poorfag you probably aren't doing regular maintenance such as oil, filters etc since the car breaks down sooner.

This isn't how supply and demand economies of scale works. In your theory, the majority buys cars that last 5 years. Parts for those cars are cheap because those are the parts most in demand. You would have to shift the market to demand the longer-lasting cars so the parts for them can become cheap, which is a tough nut to crack given that the mass market wants newer and better tech in line with what they perceive as technological progression. People expect touch screens and info displays and programmable driver modes. Shit starts off in luxury cars then becomes cheaper to manufacture in smaller cars, or are featured in cheaper. cars to entice custom. Every car has an infotainment display now, thus the consumer expects it in every new car built from then on.

My car would run to at least half a million with no problems, probably- the issue would be the rust.

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>Why would he be poor?
Because he owned a BMW.