Porsche give 10 year 120k warranty on exploding GT3 engines

[fridaypassion]

If you follow the Rennlist thread you will see that statement is the exact opposite of what has happened. All of the failures on documented there are heavily tracked cars. The issue is insufficient lubrication at 9000 rpm.

[Digga]

ooid said:

spyderlight said:

A positive thread quickly turned in to a negative good old Pistonhead readers.
The design is that bad Porsche have now given all owners a 10 year 120k warranty and to date Porsche had not refused to rectify any problems prior to this warranty announcement.
This gives all owners complete peace of mind which is in my book a large POSITIVE to ownership of a GT3.

Is it too much to expect a bullet-proof engine from one of the most important car brands/manufacturers on their limited edition models like GT?
How do you approve the final form/material of such a critical component without doing proper simulations and test? when you have potential owners (or candidates on these cars) waiting to pick these cars up for years to enjoy them with a complete peace of mind as you said?

They'd have done well to learn from the mistakes of others; chocolate finger followers (cheaply source from Inida) and inadequate top-end lubrication were what plauged the TVR Speed Six endings and, eventually did for TVR itself.

I can remember driving my mate's Tuscan up the the factory in Blackpool one night, to drop it in for service (he and I often dropped our cars up there out of hours and got keys for whatever loan TVR from the security guard on duty) and it was depressing to see all the Speed Six cars - Tuscans and Cerberas (this, prior to Tamoras and T350s) - nose-up in the yard because their engines were out.

It's a really stupid engineering mistake IMHO.