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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by TomMarius on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:21AM (#15147302)
This is shocking to me. Do you have any insight? Mercedeses newer than 2010 are considered incredibly reliable here in Europe. They had a rough decade before that, but since the introduction of W212 E-Klasse, they're back on track. Is that different for USA models?
Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by opencl on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:11AM (#15147675)
How can you call any car newer than 2010 "incredibly reliable"? There's not nearly enough data on it. I would certainly expect a car less than 10 years old to be reliable, incredibly reliable to me implies at least 20 years of reliable operation. I own 2 Japanese cars that are both over 20 years old and have over 250K miles/400K km each, one of which is a Corolla, and they still run fine.
Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by TomMarius on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:53AM (#15147934)
I'm of course talking about high-mileage applications. These newer Mercedeses (specifically W212 E-Klasse) are popular among taxi drivers and often have more than 800000 km on them - and still going strong. I'm going to buy this car for this exact reason - because taxi drivers are so happy with it.