There was a notorious case with Porsche with I think the Cayman and people doing days and the strut top mounts were failing and sometimes even cracking. All because of attacking curbs too hard. There was uproar since people argued it's a sports car and should be track capable.
For me it was back in 2011 so any issues aren't tracked as they are today. I had good rapport with the dealer who sorted any issues out under warranty, which were very few and nothing track related. I'm not sure I'll be so lucky with dealers today, especially given their amount of contact so far. Rapport is non existent these days, you're just a number. You'd think Toyota would be cool with it but Honda as an example of another Japanese manufacturer will try everything to wiggle out of claims. It's what put me off buying a new Type-R. Some had gearbox issues and they immediately blamed human error and people had to fight really hard to get new ones.
I bought a GT86 in 2013, and those cars had a couple of problems in the early days. The welds around the parcel shelf were weak and starting creaking after a while, so there was a recall to get that sorted out. Also, the injector seals wore out quickly, leading to mixture flowing back into the manifold and igniting with a pop, which was fixed in a recall as well.
I took the car back to the dealer to get both of these recalls done in one go. The service person asked me what I had been doing with the car, and I honestly said a bunch of track days, racing in the Toyota Sprint Series, 0.25 miles at Santa Pod etc. He just said good, that's what it is meant for.
Gave me a Merc C class for a week while they fixed the car up and it came back good as new.
More recently, I owned a Yaris GRMN. These cars have problems with their superchargers that require the whole unit to be replaced when they go wrong, the second time mine failed, the bill was £14k for the part alone. This was after track and race days, multiple trips to Nur etc. Two replacement chargers plus fitting under warranty cost more than the original purchase price of the car.
With both these cars, the problems were known faults fixed in recalls, not caused by abuse. Toyota fixed everything under warranty, which is why I'm happy to carry on buying sports cars from this manufacturer. I have found the product support to be pretty good.
till mid August
