I just don't see the "Luxury" cars being that Luxurious anymore. I can buy a pickup truck with the same amenities. Wasting money on branding and getting screwed through the whole ownership period is more like it. The "Luxury" cars are making it harder and harder to pay anything but dealer prices for the required repairs of common parts.
There is a difference. Its about more than creature comforts. You don't understand the "ownership experience". I'm not going to try to explain it-respectfully.
That's not a Ponzi Scheme. Google Ponzi Scheme. What you are suggestion GM does is extortion.
Of course. Marketing sells, and if it doesn't then crank the machine up a notch.
I own a 2025 Lexus. One of their more expensive ones. I don't find the ownership experience to be anything remarkable unless the free loaner car and donuts are worth paying $400 every 10k for an oil change, rotate, and cabin filter. The lubies at the Lexus dealer make the same mess under the hood as my local Toyota dealer.
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No Dexos from Valvoline Restore and Protect and while Im no Valvoline fanboy.. This oil is better not having a Dexos label.
The Volvo ownership is apparently different.
So how is it from your experience. And I'd say the ownership experience rests mostly on the dealership itself not the vehicle brand. Once you have to depend on the brand to contribute positively to the after sale ownership experience you're near a possible warranty denial and would like for them to be good and not deny you but some dealers can good will the repair and pay for it themselves which is part of a specific dealership experience.
We would agree it's mostly dealership experience. But the Volvo sponsored factory back extended warranties are very good. For example-they start at time purchase and not when the vehicle was first put in to service on a certified used.
The last ones I purchased (I’m trying to remember the production dates, probably late 2025) still have it as well.
The description of parts/services on your dealer's repair orders/receipts were loaded into the software at some point and may never change, no matter the situation with lube specifications. Few dealerships have in-house software and depend on big IT companies (Reynolds and Reynolds, et al). The new dealership systems I've been part of starting up required filling in all those descriptions before the accounting package was built at the software provider. It's like they're chisled in stone and you are committed forever. Of course, my experience was from the 70's to the 2010's so with advances in computers, maybe things are better. Just sayin'......
