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Originally posted by Mr. Pockets
I thought that for some time, and then it occurred to me that if I want the car to last a really long time, I have little choice but to try and conserve it. Machines wear out. And someday we're going to run across a part that fails at the 500,000-mile-mark. At that point Subaru will have long moved on to fuel cells, so parts for a complicated, limited-run internal combustion car will be impossible to come by.
I start to think about the many electronic components of this car, and what I would do if one failed down the road and was no longer available anywhere.
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See, that's just the attitude that gets us into trouble. Imagine, we all park our SVXes and don't drive them and keep all the parts working wonderfully unil 3003. Yes, by that time, internal combustion cars will probably be impossible to come by. What we need to do is show Subaru that these parts keep breaking NOW so that they will continue to produce them NOW. For instance, I think we should all try to coordinate the breakdown of certain parts, once a month, at the same time, so that they'll see a bulk run on the parts and say "oh no, we won't have enough of those if we don't get more -- let's make more!!!" And we can skip "Transmission Month" cuz, we know about that one!!
Well, that's my theory anyway, and I'm stickin' to it!
