Yes. Wait, for Pete's sake! Yikes!
Back in the olden days (points and condenser) with a new car you broke in like you stole it. The guys I knew that babied their car until 2000 miles usually had a slow one.
This.
My old girlfriend's dad took his new red '59 Buick station wagon out on the road, and opened it up to 120 mph. To "break it in" he said. Imagine seeing that aircraft carrier plowing the road... But that was then.
When in doubt read the owners manual for breaking in the engine
Even after 1k I am not quite to the point where I am going to just blast it open full throttle but a lot depends on how you've broken it in and what you're doing before you go full throttle.
If you plan on owning the vehicle for a long time and don't want the thing to eat oil beyond 100k miles, yes wait.
95% of this video doesn't apply to a consumer who just bought a new car. Rather, it's aimed at someone who just built an engine and is starting it for the first time--and therefore needs to do things like prime oil pumps, use a different oil to bed in the rings, use water instead of glycol, etc. Interesting to watch, but not terribly helpful. That said, I suppose that it could be used to support the concept that breaking in a new car isn't necessary because nothing that he recommends can't be accomplished anyway, so why worry.
