Why do maintaining a luxury car costs more? Shouldn’t they be more reliable than the cheaper ones?
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Maybe, if that was the goal when they were made. Often it isn’t…
1. Performance cars tend to have much tighter tolerances for parts. This means that everything fits together better and tends to work better when it’s new but it also means that the parts cost more, are harder to copy at the same standard and are usually less tolerant of wear or damage.
2. This lower tolerance to wear or damage means that when they fail, you can’t just keep going – they need to be fixed or other parts will also be damaged increasing the repair bill of you don’t get onto it quickly.
3. The development of all the nice parts with tight tolerances costs more money. To make it worse, they don’t make as many so you have to spread a higher development cost over less units.
4. All the cool features cost money to make. Once they’re in, that’s one more thing to maintain. Consider a car with AC and one without – if you want to keep the AC running, you need to look after it while the one without just has a fan and an air duct from the outside.
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