I was very involved on Rennlist back then a with some of the guys that went to this meeting in Atlanta. It is true, Porsche listened and helped out.
Frankly, the whole issue is way overblown. I have a 550 Maranello, a F12, a 812SF and an 812GTS. Maranello regularly blew coolant hoses until I replaced them with non-factory reinforced kit, runs like a charm, purrs like a kitten, that’s now a what - a 30 year old V12? Cost me some peanuts money, I regularly spend more on wine over a weekend than on fixing that. F12 over ten years of ownership required one battery replacement, now will need to replace again next spring, but that’s again, absolutely trivial expense. 812 - no issues at all, zero, nilch, perfect ownership experience. Comes time to reseal the gaskets - well, so what? Find a good independent mechanic, pay him well, enjoy the car for another 10 years. It is a f@ing racing engine, hell on earth, you’d need to rebuild it every 40 running hours if it was built by Porsche GT division… That is a 100k+ miles 812SF driven hard and fast, show me a modern GT3RS which has a same mileage without a couple of engine replacements:
