Which 97 did I pass over?
All cars have their weaknesses, including my sold M3. i dodn't want to face rebuild issues on a German car, if you think svx's are $$.
Perhaps the svx is like my mom's old Audi form 1980; they left the car for us to sort out and after 90-100k, it ran forever. All our new 92s problems occured in the first 5 years of owning it. Never needed bearings though....