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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
On the flip side of that, I would never buy a car (or anything else for that matter) where I thought I needed to buy an extended warranty because it was going to have expensive (non-maintenance) repairs within the first half of it's useful life (in the case of a vehicle I consider half-life 100,000 miles).
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the introduction of complicated drive trains and super hot turbos and direction injection makes these marketing beast cars worrisome to me for that key area of 80-100k miles in which things can blow.
The reason this FRS/BRZ is so awesome is it has 5 of 5 things that have a good chance of being reliable, in my limited scope of figuring things:
1. made and parts from Japan
2. no turbo or supercharger
3. manual gearbox taken from a great car line
4. non integrated "infotainment" system. You can rip out the stereo and have a hole there and the car wouldnt know the difference.
5. has fuel injection squirting out the black junk + direct injection
Because of this warranties are less of a concern I am guessing. You should see my forum on Mini Cooper's and BMW's.... jeez. Infinite expensive issues not repairable 100%.