<story><title>Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>My family’s ownership outcomes strongly suggest getting a Toyota.  I’m driving my Dad’s old 2001 Tundra pickup with 350k miles on the same engine.  I was amazed when I bought it from him how every switch still worked, the original AC still blew cold.  This is not my normal experience buying used cars from other manufacturers.  Usually at about 150k miles they turn into a clown car of various systems failing.  Someone put thought into each component on the truck and how it would age.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Which auto maker&amp;#x27;s electronics are likely to be reliable for the 25-year nominal life of the vehicle (US fleet average age is 11.8 years and rising)?&lt;p&gt;And which will have spare parts available for that long?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m thinking about buying a new car, but I&amp;#x27;m worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kipchak</author><text>Generally speaking Toyota is conservative in terms of rolling out new technologies and sticks with what&amp;#x27;s proven. For example the base Camry has a 2.5L engine and 8 speed auto transmission and the base Accord a 1.5 turbo and 10 speed auto. Toyota also goes more in depth terms of QA and testing on individual parts than others.&lt;p&gt;From an article on the Toyota - BMW Supra&amp;#x2F;M4 collaboration,&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...BMW couldn’t believe how extensive some of our quality and efficiency studies were as parts came into shape one by one. We would take every bit down to a fastener or rivet, and put it through our stringent quality control and a dozen other testing, we’d ship thousands of parts back to Japan for analysis. That is normal to us.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;club4ag.com&amp;#x2F;chief-engineer-tetsuya-tada-reveals-the-a90-supra-through-a-viewpoint-of-joint-development-with-bmw&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;club4ag.com&amp;#x2F;chief-engineer-tetsuya-tada-reveals-the-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>My family’s ownership outcomes strongly suggest getting a Toyota.  I’m driving my Dad’s old 2001 Tundra pickup with 350k miles on the same engine.  I was amazed when I bought it from him how every switch still worked, the original AC still blew cold.  This is not my normal experience buying used cars from other manufacturers.  Usually at about 150k miles they turn into a clown car of various systems failing.  Someone put thought into each component on the truck and how it would age.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Which auto maker&amp;#x27;s electronics are likely to be reliable for the 25-year nominal life of the vehicle (US fleet average age is 11.8 years and rising)?&lt;p&gt;And which will have spare parts available for that long?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m thinking about buying a new car, but I&amp;#x27;m worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>celticmusic</author><text>When I was in HS I had a friend whose family had this old beat up orange smallbed truck from the 70&amp;#x27;s (this was mid 90&amp;#x27;s).  That thing was beat all to hell, ugly as sin.  It was used as a truck.&lt;p&gt;But you know what?  That damned thing ran like a beauty.  It literally ran until their son started driving it and wrecked it.&lt;p&gt;I was impressed enough with it, that when it was time for me to purchase a vehicle, I went with Toyota.  15 years later and that thing has &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; left me on the side of the road, not even once (I do keep up maintenance on it).  I&amp;#x27;m considering purchasing another vehicle because it&amp;#x27;s time to get something larger, and when I do it will most likely be Toyota.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen so many people say that at 200k miles Toyota is just getting warmed up, and there&amp;#x27;s some truth to it.  You obviously have to keep up with maintenance on the vehicle, but if you do I can guarantee it will treat you right.  And I&amp;#x27;m not saying other manufacturers are any worse, but I am saying Toyota is a great vehicle to buy.</text></comment>