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Sealed hood comes next. No user serviceable parts inside. :incazzato:

 

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)

 

The Fuch wheels are the only thing that tells me that's a Porsche.

 

The whole thing looks rather Fuched up to me......