Originally Posted by spearfish25

Well, I definitely have been babying the car, but a few times I've jumped on it...it's somewhat irresistible. In the end, I didn't mean for this to be an engine break-in thread as we all know there are two schools of thought. I've never heard of any true studies being performed to compare break-in methodologies. What we need is a real scientific study comparing a single model of car....some driven hard from day 1 while another group driven gingerly for the first 1200mi as a control. Then we compare outcomes in terms of mechanical problems, oil burn rate, etc to see which group faired better.