I take your point and/but...
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Originally Posted by
Homestar
Pity their design life isn't that long to see the benefits. [bigwhistle]
Homestar,
I take your point re 'design life'; and it's one of the reasons that Land Rover (or other genuine off-roader) is a better buy.
What 'the b******s' have done is used computer simulation to produce a just-outside-of-warranty life for parts; whereas cars built by the same maker before the availability of this kind of non-field testing used 'well, we'd better give it some robustness and redundancy'.
So our good (new?) Land Rovers are actually built with an expectation of some harsh use and remote location use - hopefully this means we don't get let down in the outback or the driveway quite so early.
Apparently BMW's Mini is one of the (worst) for tick-tock up to the minute of warranty expiry.
Meanwhile - and re my earlier post re technological change - stumbled across this with my morning news-feed:
‘Lightbulb moment’: the battery technology invented in a Brisbane garage that is going global | Brisbane | The Guardian