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Somehow the initial statement in post #1 about car being babied it's whole life doesn't quite fit with red-lined up to a dozen times per day. This engine was designed to be revved, of course, so there is no way I would advocate granny-driving it. Perhaps in the long run, a V8 with this much rev capacity is too close to being a racing engine for usage in a high mileage street car without some expectation of occasional failures. Obviously, it is possible to design such an engine with lower bearing fail rates than what we see here if the development time and focus is there up front at the manufacturer. It looks like some of us will get lucky and a few of us won't (in terms of engine failure), but at the same time how many other V8s in the world can turn 8400 rpm regularly and last for 100k+ miles?
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