Castrol has come up with a new (and I'm sure quite expensive) way to conduct a complete oil change in 90 seconds. It's plug and play technology applied to doing a full oil change by replacing a box about the size of a conventional car battery. Practical details on how this works are missing from the Castrol press release (as in completely non-existent!). Perhaps that is because the concept is really so simple it's nothing to brag about? My thought is this probably works only on a dry-sump engine and the fancy new Castrol box simply acts as the replacement reservoir for the oil with some sort of quick-disconnects. Pictures and the press release are here: Castrol Nexcel is an oil change in a box
Sooo... A nice "cheap" carbon fiber box that holds the required quantity of oil with a integrated oil filter... Changed in 90 seconds.... But probably costs at least $300-$400 per oil change... Probably only available from the dealer... The auto companies want "sealed" engines.... They probably also like the idea of "Plug & Play" oil changes that they control as well.... They are slowly plugging all the money loopholes the DIYers enjoy today...
More or less as proposed by Porsche back in 1973 with the FLA long life car study. This was a fascinating attempt to build a really long-life car. If my memory serves, this had an expected life of a million miles (or maybe km) with service intervals of 100,000 miles or so. Fitting an opening bonnet/hood with hinges didn't make sense for such little use, so the bonnet/hood bolted in place, with access hatches for fluid checks/top-ups. They reckoned it would only cost two to three times as much as an ordinary car....... Porsche FLA (Wikipedia) Porsche FLA (Jalopnik)