This is awful, the engines last long enough to make it past the end of the warranty and then they go bad. It's like we're lambs being led to slaughter ($5000 feels like slaughter to me!). I wish I did have a number of how many owners this has happened to but I don't. From what I hear the number isn't really low considering that there aren't many VX's made in the first place. If we could get an exact number made and an exact number that had engine failures we'd all probably freek when we came up with a percentage.