Gentlemen,
I hate to say what remains unsaid: a new car like this should not break down. I feel desperately sorry for the Trans India Challenge team (because they are doing a great thing for charity) but I am completely unsurprised that the M3W's reliability should prove trumps again.
We should be outraged that MMC lets this quality out on the road at this price....
As somebody else on this erstwhile forum has said before...no other car maker has such a forgiving clientele.
No this is not sour grapes: I loved my 2 M3Ws....but I love reliability more...and the essence of M3W is FUN (which I associate with stress-free driving and not "will it/ won't it" motoring).
We should all be giving Steve Morris a hard time about his product reliability whilst wishing all the very best to the Trans India Challenge team.
I agree with all the above. My first M3W (a 2013) was diabolically unreliable so we sold it after 18 months when we moved abroad. My second one (a 2017) has proved much more reliable after its first two trips back from the dealer when brand new, both of which ended in it having to go back to the dealer on a flatbed. Since then, it has been pretty good (fuel pump and new factory Stage 1 pipes failures being the exceptions).
