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Originally Posted by bruce.augenstein@comcast.
Swamp, how about some examples.
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All we both will likely provide are anectdotes not evidence, which I already admitted would be the case. You can name turbo cars all day and make claims about their robustness, you may be right, you may be wrong. Without evidence we are both engaging in a lot of speculation. However, my speculation has a basis in basic principals of engineering and reliability. Just to appease you with some anecdotal evidence though I heard many stories about blown turbos in the Third gen RX-7. That was a Wankel, but I am not talking about a blown engine, but a blown turbo. One in particular was my good buddies girl, she lost her turbo with less than 100k miles, might have even been closer to 60k. Both he and her knew of similiar losses at similar mileages. Other anecdotal reliability evidence can be found online about Mitsubishi, Renault, Toyota, Ford, etc. Much of that evidence seems focused around 80-early 90 vehicles and I don't doubt for a moment that turbo reliability has improved substantially since then.