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Welp, I guess no Toyaburu for me then. The only other options have been:
a 2016 WRB BRZ with 2 owners, 54k miles and with partial service history, HOWEVER, it had an entire engine rebuild at 49k miles because the guy had it serviced at some garage which caused the engine to fail prematurely (knocking) . He did have it completely rebuilt with warranty remaining but I don't think I would trust a car that had the short block, fuel pump, oil pump, etc changed within a short period and after it had those sketchy service garages. I didn't bother test driving this.
a 2016 with 67K miles, no service history for the past 10k miles, the ones before were with the dealer. I took it for a test drive and every gear shift would have this sudden jerk in the car and you would have to let go of the gas for it to slow down and then shift (I was not even flooring it, just under 4K RPM). Based on the place and how the car was being shown to be through a home caretaker, I can safely assume the car was abused and not well taken care of.
both options are about $2K more than the 2014 86, a price I am completely fine with paying but these cars genuinely seem to be in much worse mechanical state than the 86 I saw and inspected. The high mileage is due to intercity travel on the freeway and to quote the owner "I am a female and so I don't push the car like some of these other guys in the 86 community do".
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