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I agree with brucelee...I don't think he was kidding. Everyone is so afraid of running their cars hard. Times have changed from the mustang and camaro days, with the RX-7's and the mitsu 3000GTs and the supra's... cars are more high-tech and built to last much longer and take more abuse.
I also thought it was stupid to always push your car, hitting red-line all the time... but after my ex bought her new lexus IS300 a while back i took it to the dealer for an oil change and the mechanic said "make sure you floor it and shift at redline everywhere you go"... at first i thought it was a joke, but then he told me the cars need it and thrive off of it. This must have been around 2004 I think, and he said all the cars (2004's and other later models, 03, 02, etc) were the same way, they will thrive and there is no negative to driving them as hard as you possibly can. He also said that he noticed the elderly crowd who would always say they pamper the cars were the ones bringing the cars in after 3 or 4 years due to engine problems, etc. He said the 20's crowd and the group who has rims, mods, etc only came in to the dealer for oil changes, and scheduled visits. He was the head mechanic also that told me this. Since then friends have told me the same thing about their cars when they buy'em new.
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