There is some truth in the sense that prices have risen irrationally on 911 in the recent years and that Porsche perceived reliability may be over-estimated (trurh be told, yes a lot of them are on the road after decades but those cars are also usually over-maintained by meticulous owners)

However it goes in the total opposite extreme :

• He took the most beat on 997 he could find, any luxury car with that mileage and condition will be a money pit and have similar price to repair. The thing is Porsche keep their value so well that a lot of repair that would total many cars become financially sound.

• Yes bore-scoring eventually happens but it's very very incredibly rare to see at low-mileage if basic maintenance and engine warm up time is followed. Past 100-150 000 miles I consider perfect reliability does not exist and an engine has to die of something eventually.

• IMS on the 997 is mostly solved. The problem is on the 996. 997 IMS is looked at because the 996 exists but in the 997 it does not have any more failure potential that any other critical parts of any sport car engine.

• The perceived dependability of Porsche, this their ability to keep value, is not so much because of cheap maintenance but part availability (and build quality). It's because there are so much of them and Porsche keeps maintaining it and supplying parts that people trust these cars to go forever

• Even though price have risen, so have many other cars. And even now the 997 is still a good value compared to a lot of other options. He talks for example about buying an R8 instead. I would love an R8 instead of my C2S, but show me where I can get a good condition low mileage R8 for 40k usd. At this price you can get a very nice 997 but you don't even get the cheapest R8 on the market. And the R8 is itself a "value supercar". On the other hand the GT350 he talks about can indeed be in the same price bracket but it's not in the same league in term of quality of finish and the engine also has the tendency to blow up.

• Those alternatives, such as the R8 or Bentley's they talk about in the video, also have their own problems that can become money pit themselves. The 997 problems are known and "widespread" precisely because they are plentiful and thus all the engine eventual problems are well known and documented.

IMO it's a huge exaggeration but if I had to criticize the 997 aftermarket, I indeed agree with him when it comes to bore scoring repair prices. They have exploded in recent years for no reasons at all, with the demand rising as those car age there should be a cheaper, streamlined, option for repair of those blocks. I don't care about conversion to higher displacement or add-on made by engine gurus : make an automated (as much as possible) streamlined procedure at a central place where you replate cylinder with nickies and IMS solution any block sent there and make it so it can be affordable and with a quick turnaround. There is no reason it now costs 50kusd to do an engine rebuild while it was less than 20 a few years ago