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Originally Posted by hayden55
Thats why the european manufacturers have always quoted extremely long oil change intervals. The maintenance cost over time wins in advertising, its marketed as green, and it props up sales of their new cars as the cars won't last as long after the warranty period is up.
Thats why they say anything can be made to last forever if you take care of it, because its more or less true on vehicles. Swap a bmw that is known for rod bearing failures before 100k to 1997 Toyota maintenance scheduling and it'll do 200k+.
This is also why other manufacturers have started to increase their maintenance intervals as well including Toyota.
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Yes, good. Also conversely in europe most steel oil filters were swapped for paper. Really sneaky. If you don't change them often enough at the paper breaks up and blocks the oil channels (mostly vauxhall/opel/cheverolet and vw). Oil is not too expensive. If you buy bulk 0w-20 (20l £80-90) a change can cost £20 (5l sump) so twice a year I don't think is bad. 0w-16 is still expensive here
...Regarding the first comment I made, glass, iron, pvc. They are the highest density in classses and not all the cheapest. So if you kind of wanted cars to be heavy and well E=mc2 so a higher mass would mean transporting an item from one place to another uses an increased amount of energy (irrespective of source) manufacturing with with those materials would be the way to go