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I drive mine like I stole it and no problems. My car has 84k now but I didn’t get it until 80k. Who knows how the previous owner drove it. I also autox mine and will eventually track it. Doubt I will track it regularly but maybe a handful of times each year as I have with past cars. If you don’t plan on tracking it then there is nothing you need to do to prep it with regards to reliability. If you’re tracking it then oil cooler would be advisable. 60 secs at an autox isn’t going to cause major oil temps.
I did replace the TOB, that’s not a big deal though.
It is funny how consumer reports when from, oh this car is crap to putting it on the top 10 list. Early 2013 cars had DI seal issues due to knock on large transients but that was fixed with software mid 2014 (which is backward compatible with the 2013) and improved some more on the 2017. From reading around there is talk about early years being improperly assembled where they used too much RTV on the timing cover which would break loose and block oil galleries. They also changed the coil packs in 2015 I think it was. People tracking a lot would overheat the coils. As far as I know the new coil pack also dies with heat. Surprised no one has developed a kit to put LS coils on our car. There are kits like this on a bunch of cars because those coils are cheap and the truck version has built in heat sinks.
Long story short it seems the bugs are all worked out past 2015. I wouldn’t worry about driving it hard.
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