Car Dealers Are Terrified of Tesla’s Plan to Eliminate Oil Changes

[SheilaT]

23. How many of us can afford a $70k new car?

I certainly can't. I doubt I'll be able to afford one used.

Okay, I recognize that eventually they may well have such cars at the kind of prices I pay, but this is not something that is going to happen overnight.

Remember when tires lasted maybe 20,000 miles? Or when you needed to get an actual tune-up quite regularly? Or when people who could possibly afford it got a new car every two or three years because, quite frankly, any vehicle that had been driven that long was already wearing out. When the odometers topped out at 99999 because almost now cars could possibly go for 100,000 miles?

My point is that cars have gotten better, more reliable, longer lasting, and so on over the past century. The Tesla is just another kind of car to come down the pike.