I thought about this a lot when I first got my car, because it was so hard to keep the rpm's under 4k for a 1000 miles but the way I convinced myself to do it was this: You're going to own this car for a long time, and you're going to put well over a 1000 miles on it, right? Maybe even a 100,000 miles someday. I know it's tempting to go WOT and let the car run free but is going easy on it for 1% of the total miles you're going to put on this car really that bad? You'll have plenty of time to enjoy the car and spin the wheels and all that you want, and if you go easy for the first 1000 miles, I guarantee you won't look back at it someday and say "Damn if only I had driven hard for those first 1000 miles too" but there's a chance that if something goes wrong later down the road, you MIGHT think "Maybe if I had gone easy and did a proper break-in, this wouldn't have happened" even if the problem you run into is completely unrelated to a break in. Do it for your own sanity, and believe me, when the day comes and you hit that 1000 mile mark, the reward is that much sweeter.
