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Originally Posted by SteVTEC
designed to grenade the engines earlier so that everyone is forced into EV's.
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Europeans are more sensitive to maintenance costs than Americans, so EUDM cars offer longer service intervals as a way to entice buyers with supposedly lower cost of ownership. This has been going on for much longer than EV mandates or offerings. My father's '04 Peugeot 206 had 2 years/30,000 KMs oil change interval (and lasted surprisingly well into 150,000 KMs).
If you compare service intervals for the same car between markets you'll see that it's mostly driven by consumer expectations rather than any engineering principle.