I have a 1996 Passat with about 200,000 miles. How long can I drive it with the mileage being so high? The car works perfectly, drives like a dream, etc. but the mileage is a little high. Is there a maximum mileage before it starts having a lot of problems, etc.? Dump it. It will not last that much longer. You can keep any car for as long as you like, as long as you maintain it well. I would assume the car is paid for. Keep driving it until it goes no more. I'm sure you have a cell phone, and as long as you don't take a lot of long trips I'd drive it until the wheels fall off it. 4500 rebate right now for clunkers. Most of the car manufactures are offering 0% financing right now and have their own rebates. So now may be the time to get a new car if you're planning on buying one.
Dealers are starving right now and will negotiate anything to move one off the lot, but you have to stand firm on making a good deal and walk away if they don't meet your price. If you take care of a vehicle, there is no telling. If you took 10 engines from Volkswagen Passats and started then all up, ran them the same speed and never shut them off until they failed, they would all fail at different times. The acceptable tolerance of each piston weight in the engine falls within a certain range that is considered acceptable. But if you happen to get one where every piston was the exact same and the crankshaft balance quality was exact, The engine is going to last longer. Volkswagen has some of the tightest tolerances in the automotive industry. Clearances are in ten-thousandth of an inch increments when converted from the metric values used.
SomVolkswagen engines run well over 300,000 miles before needing a rebuild or replacement. You seem to be good at maintaining the car so congratulations. Things that normally start to wear out no matter how careful you are include low cost stuff like tires, brakes, batteries, and exhausts. That is normal wear and tear. The kind of stuff you are worried about is major engine and transmission wear. That really depends a lot on whether you drive a car really hard or on a lot of start and stop kind of trips. If you drive 100 miles a day on the freeway it will go farther than 10 miles a day on the local road. In other words, it is really hard to say how long it will last. At this point though, assuming the car is paid for, it really owes you nothing. 500 a year in repairs. I drive only older high mileage cars and do a lot of work on them myself, including putting engines and transmissions in them as I need to, so I don't really worry about how many miles are on them. But I always keep an ear out for strange noises and keep an eye out for leaking fluids, these are always signs that something is going wrong. Ur car can last foreve, trust me ive seen cars with alot more millage and aslong as there unmolested and taken well care of it will last.
With even better products likely to be built off of great design and data. What does a market leader generally comprise of in market share? With all of those laid out (I'm sure I missed some), the simple investment question is, "do you believe climate change is real?". I've believed yes since 2009 and wanted to see someone executing on fixing the problem. I've learned that it's not just a problem to fix, but an innovation cycle that will make things better. Elon Musk and Tesla (and everyone that works and/or roots with/for them) is there in order to fix one question: is climate change real? If so, then that means the likelihood of the entire human civilization being wiped out is possible. Though, that's the situation that we seemingly seem to be in. I think that's where Robotaxis have come in. Tesla's vision since 2015 has incorporated this concept due to huge under-utilization of the concept of the car of 5% of time being used for driving and the rest just sitting around doing nothing in a parked state.