My take on all this is that there are inherent design issues which will cause your engine to 'grenade' regardless of how you drive (or maintain) it, in addition to issues which cause your engine to 'genade' if your drive it 'hard', there are those which will cause it to 'grenade' if you drive it soft.
That's not an endorsement to drive it 'hard', though it may not matter in the long run if you drive Hard or Soft.
It seems like not 'genading' your engine is a roll of the preverbial dice insomuch as the 'Morrocan' assemblymen were asleep at the switch ... or not.
The bottom line being that the 'myth' of Porsche 'reliability' is just that... myth!
My take is that if you own an M96 motor, it's much more a matter of 'when' rather than 'if''.
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