Just messing with the newbie mate!
A lot of us know Mal and he's a great guy and one of the more knowledgeable ones on the forum although he doesn't visit as much not having the MPS anymore. The car was well looked after as is many of ours. Generally if the MPS required anything it was addressed although I can explain specifics cause I'm not intimate with the history of the car. Myself have replaced the water pump once and I might have a leak again. It's a machine, such is life.
I think Mal may have got the smoking turbo problem which MANY people have got. @
Fizzy who has commented on that thread will demonstrate just how short you need to look to find reference to that! It's a design flaw from Mazda and I believe the turbo has been replaced. Think he's running a BNR stage 3 if I remember.
The thing is with the MPS it's not the type of car people would typically buy if one wanted to thrash and do burnouts etc. It's more of a GT and Mal treated as such and joined us on some social cruises which you're welcome to. The MPS does actually need to stretch the legs once a while. Note a lot of black smoke coming out the back, it's good to clear that out once a while, runs much nicer afterwards