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….manufacturer has issues like these.

ALL of them.

Pick any vehicle built in the history of the world, and there is some sort of mechanical issue with it.

As Elon Musk said, ”Building vehicles is hard.”

Look at the Mazda Miata, probably THE most reliable sports car ever built in history.

The 1990 first build of the Miata had a “short nosed crank” that would snap in half. I owned a very early production 1990 Miata and put a Flyin’ Miata turbo kit on her and people in the know were always shocked when they saw my car with 325,000 miles on her with 300,000 of those miles having 12 pounds of turbo boost through her on an all stock engine. Nobody could believe it didn’t blow up.

Look at BMW E39 M5’s with their timing phaser failures, look at the M5 V-10’s that grenade at 50,000 miles, look at the Corvettes with dropped valves, it’s everywhere.

You can’t price yourself out of the market by building the perfect car.

Whatever car you choose will have SOMETHING that is a systemic failure point.

Just learn what those issues are with your target vehicle, and spend the money to fix them.

And then get busy livin’.