Redline a day keeps soot acumulation away.

If driving unloaded in the city, stick with the gas engine. You’ll have so many emission related issues if you drive an ecodiesel in that light duty application.

This failure mode listed is no longer an issue, biggest failure mode has been emission related. Low pressure EGR usage will result in filtered and cooler exhaust being used to prevent dirty egr valves and intakes, but may result in condensation in the intercooler. Heavy EGR usage will still create dirty exhaust…

I don’t think there’s been a single Leaf fire in the 8 years the car has been on the market.

“Relatively regularly” still being far less often than a gas car. Everyone makes a big stink about Tesla fires, but they forget that gas fires are so commplace that they don’t even make the news.

Looks like Audi's decided to move upmarket & take on Ferrari. 🔥

With this engine, my main concern isn’t extra power. It’s dealing with the reliability issues and design flaws it has had:

I have a ‘14 5.7 HEMI and this article made me want the ecodiesel. I only tow to/from the racetrack, otherwise it’s just dailying to the office.

I had a car like that once. Had to pump the brakes once before there was pressure. Almost amazed I didn’t kill myself or anyone else in that death trap.

I built my GLA45 in February 2015 and it came in in July. I spec’d this thing out pretty much with everything but GPS. I wasn’t paying 2,000 for a feature that I can get on my phone for free. All said and done it was almost 70k. And over the course of ownership it lost almost 40k in value. Every 10k it had to go in…

“In somewhat related news, hydrogen stations keep blowing up”

If your BEV burns up, does that make it an external combustion engine?

And California fuel cell drivers can’t refuel.

Among other things, GM mismanaged the hell out of the ignition switch debacle. They knew about it before any of the culprit cars even went into production. Then they modified the part without issuing a new part number, making it highly difficult to tell which cars had the defective version and which didn’t.

I can’t wait for the biodegradeable wiring harness and battery!

Well, Jalopnik did a review of the GLA45 a while back and it didn’t fare that well. (69/100) And the scoring was generous for things like the ride and interior. The DCT is okay, but the 4Matic system seems cheap considering this car’s sporting mission. It’s default mode is FWD and can’t send more than 50% of the…

moisture can seep into the battery cell through a wiring harness glitch

In other Tesla-killer news, the Jag I-Pace is having a recall because the regen braking can fail which leads to a noticeable delay between pressing on the brake pedal and deceleration. On the plus side, this can be fixed with a software update. On the down side, you have to take the car to the dealer for said software…

With how connected new cars are, we are destined to see more recalls. The data was not present in the past to point to a common problem so quickly. Even if my local dealer repaired an issue on my car, and another dealer fixed the exact same issue, the two might not show exactly the same in a manufacturer database.

Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!