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Originally Posted by mja bmw
As a personal rule, I would never own any of these cars that was not still under warranty.
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This goes without saying. You lose an engine or a tranny and it could cost more than bare bones new Jetta.
Plus, it does not stop there. The next week the cooling system could fail.
Let's pretend you replace the engine due to catastrophic failure. What is the probability that tranny could blow two weeks later?
Answer: the same. The probability that your tranny could blow two weeks after replacing the engine does not change---it remains the same probability as before the engine was replaced.
Thus, owning these expensive cars is not really an investment---good or bad. However, owning these cars outside of a warranty is a very bad investment.