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Originally Posted by Fred Demara
I've owned over a dozen cars in my 25 years of driving (some really nice, some junkers) - my 02 boxster s is the only one that has had 3 engines in under 80,000 miles.
The M96 is a shamefully poor design in terms of reliability - Porsche should have let Subaru build these engines for them.
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I think Fred is right on here. I love the Box but this engine and RMS issue has persisted for many years. Ditto, I have never had an engine go bad on me in my 40+ years of driving.
I had a 327 Corvette that I beat as hard as I could, all the time, everytime.
Hey, I was 17. The car had cheap oil in it and perhaps, didn't have enough at times.
Never missed a beat.
I think they call it robust?
My current Lexus is coming up on 140K miles. Just drove it 2000 miles from SD to Des Moines IA. Never missed a beat, didn't burn a drop of oil. The car is 13 yrs old.
Porsche can do better on the engine, no doubt in my mind.