Defective, having several major issues. Relates to the US lemon laws, which stated manufacturers had to fix, replace or refund the purchase price of any defective vehicles sold.

If you use the same mechanic on a fairly regular basis, they will generally do this type inspection for free. They don’t want to deal with a lemon any more than you do.

The article said he did two tours overseas

Edit: the first comment stated the 2 tours, without any link to back it up. My bad