This point seems overrated. Service on a modern ICE car is pretty minimal, and I don't see it as something manufacturers really care about. Maybe dealerships, perhaps.

Hyperbolic bull*it. Modern ICE cars regularly run for tens of thousands of miles with nothing more than an oil change.

As I posted elsewhere, I've always tracked my expenses. From 2011 to 2018, I spent about $2300 on maintenance and repairs. That's parts, labor and oil changes. And it was a 2003 car, so fairly old.

Look up reliable cars. Buy them used. It's much cheaper. I have the numbers going back to 2007.

I've needed about 2 repairs on my 13 year old ICE vehicle over those 13 years, and one was under warranty. I think it'll need some more work soon, but still, it's not a lot of repairs.

"new parts every few months"? Come on now.

Hell, I bought a new high performance vehicle. Drove it up to the dealership for its 5k oil change. They could easily have said "sure, no problem" and charged me $150ish for the privilege.

"Sir, unless you've been tracking the car and driving it very hard, 10K is the oil change interval. Sorry you wasted your trip".

In your world, they would have taken my money.

That is not normal in my experience.

This is the kind of thing that people here in HN believe? No wonder you're looking forward to electrics then.