Quote Originally Posted by Scrap View Post
that is one of the last cars you would expect to break down
No, quite the opposite in fact. Shitty Italian (and British) sports car build quality and reliability and the amount of complex shit now under their bonnets (or in their boots) means that they're probably the most likely cars to blow up. In the eighties they all started introducing fancy ceramic filters and all kinds of other crap into the engines, which was great until the first cold spell of the year broke all the new fancy engines. After that you had to have a centrally heated garage to keep it in every night before you could get insured. These cars are all built to maximise speed because the top speed sells. Whether they actually work for any length of time is an afterthought when it comes to designing and building them. And you need serious service work every few thousand miles too. If you own one of them, prepare to finish some journeys on foot or in an AA recovery vehicle. And if it lasts a year without serious mechanical problems or the electrics setting it on fire while you're in traffic then sell it while you're ahead.