Talk me out of buying an EVO VIII

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Well the seller dropped the price down to my asking price of $18,500. It is a 2005 EVO VIII with the leather/sunroof/premium sound package. It has 33k miles and is stock. Supposedly still under warranty for one more year. It has had the 30k mile service done and it looks pretty good. No scratches or dents, but the front calipers are faded and so are the rears. However, I've learned that is common with the evos (lame). Also, the guy told me that the rear rotors should eventually be changed soon (lame.)

The engine looks kinda dirty but from what I can tell it has been stock since purchased from them (original owners).

However, i've been reading about how the evos suck from the factory. The clutch needs to be fixed pretty much within 50k miles and people have been having problem with the syncros being out of wack. Some have fixed the problem with syncromesh, but most take it back to the dealer and have them fix it. However, since i will only have a year left on the warranty, i'm not too excited about something bad happening to it after the warranty is done. Also i heard people are always getting new transfer case and transmission!

But the car is beautiful, rides awesome, and the power is awesome. I would definately keep this as my forever project car and put future mod money into the evo (sorry yaris). I would also get some nice 18x9.5" SSRs to put on their from garm! ;)

I've got the money for it, but after reading about all the problems with the car that happen when it is still stock, this thing is starting to sound like a money pit.

ARG

ps: I dont care if everyone has an EVO either. So yah, that's not an issue.