I wasn't contemplating a re-import of a car from a German manufacturer as sold in India back into Germany. I also wasn't thinking "luxury". I was rather think

I wasn't contemplating a re-import of a car from a German manufacturer as sold in India back into Germany. I also wasn't thinking "luxury". I was rather thinking of getting a Tata or Lada or whatever the locals drive in India or Russia or some country where manufacturers are still more or less forced to serve the needs of the less-well-off consumer. It would have to be something of much lesser complexity than a German luxury car. There are still lots of car mechanics around whose shops are not under contract by any particular brand who are more than happy to fix just about any car for you. ...provided the car manufacturer hasn't gone out of their way to make that difficult for them to do. Which all the modern brands with any presence in the West actually have done. For example, usually only a VW dealership will have proper VW diagnostic software to read out error codes. If I ask them to fix my Honda Civic, I'm shit out of luck. If the only dealerships close by are VW dealerships, as is the case in rural Germany, then I'm basically forced to buy/drive a VW. Now, that would be a different story if I had a Lada Taiga and had it serviced by the guy around the corner who fixes cars in his shed on weekends and who only takes cash.