Thread: Modern Diesels

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

New and powerful and efficient is good and old and simple and cheap to repair/rebuild is good ,somewhere in the middle is first generation new technology that is getting old and unreliable and VERY expensive to maintain and this is where the second hand market is very bloody wary now and will become moreso as more get bitten.
Shorter design lifes are all well and good but eventually the second hand market will catch up and drop and so will new vehicle turnover prices and lease rates go up.

Even second gen is getting unreliable and expensive with shorter design lives.