If you were thinking of buying a Mitsu Evo 8...

Hah hah that\'s another problem altogether.  Though it hasn\'t happened to me, I\'ve heard about dealers denying warranty coverage for no valid reason.  That\'s partly why I would never buy an extended warranty.  Why invest in something that you may never be able to use on the one occasion when you actually need it?

What a hoot.  They sell you a performance car but when you try to get any performance out of it & it breaks you have to convince Mitsu that it wasn\'t your fault. :rolleyes:

There are too warranties on it, but it doesn\'t cover things like broken clutches etc. Most the time the dealers look at the computers in the car and see that it died at 150 mph, would you pay for something when someone breaks the law like that?

Mitsubishi\'s own website lists the top speed as 157mph.  Maybe the owner was on a track at the time they achieved 150mph.  That wouldn\'t be against the law.  Ah, but taking your car to a track almost immediately invalidates your warranty, even according to manufacturers like Porsche who sell primarily performance cars designed for the track...

This has nothing to do with "breaking the law."  When is a car, designed as a performance car, driven like a performance car, without it being classified as "abuse?"  Is it an economy car or a performance car?

I\'m sure many owners of economy cars abuse their vehicles much more frequently by running inappropriate tire pressures, not checking the oil, not warming up the engine approriately, etc.  The only difference is that the manufacturer can CATCH the drivers of performance cars by checking the black box.  The more common varieties of abuse are more invisible.