Always the blames on the 348.. Mine is a '93, but still a car of 13 years old. I bought it last year and did 4500 miles by now. The only maintenance issue was filling up 1 litre of oil. The rest of the money I spent was only for cosmetics.
I know what you mean of course but I think what they are trying to say is; for any given model, the newer the car is, the less maintenance it is likely to need.
I bought a 95 F355b in April, 2000 w/ 2248 miles and now w/ 21k miles. I have no problem with anything except reg. maintenance. And of cource I had a 30k done and new clutch. I am very happy