Bah Kobie, don't let them get to you. Eric gets the same nonsense for his N/T 2G, yet has put enough money into it to make a TSi go 11's reliably.

I do concur with Darren though, any car is unreliable if you don't put the maintenance to it and do hack-job style fixes/installs. There are MANY turbo production cars out there and yet our cars get the "unreliable" brand? It's quite possibly due to the fact that the newest 2G is 10 years old!

And yet you don't see people rushing out to buy a turbo Daytona, Ford Probe GT, Turbo Shadows or MR-2's do you? No. Because the DSM is a highly modifiable, high horsepower OOTB, AWD platform with a motor that can handle 500WHP with only bolt-ons.

All you are doing is increasing the stress on major components. Do this to any vehicle, things WILL break. You can rag on Honda owners for snapping axles all the time or destroying transmissions, does that make a Honda unreliable?