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Originally Posted by Gadflyii
First of all... that is not how a free market works. Do I care that the Won is stonger to the Yen? No.
Do I care that Subaru sells more WRX's than Scion will sell FR-S? No.
The market is the market. All products in the market compete freely against each other. That is why is is called the free market.
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Wow, its incredible how much you completely missed my point. Let me try to explain it in a way that you can understand. That's not how the free market works, wth? Yeah duh, of course that's not how the free market works because that's not what i was writing about!
This is what i was trying to say in even simpler terms. Toyota/subaru needs to make at least a small profit with each frs/brz they sell. Otherwise they won't be able to keep making the car, and production will end. However, due to the factors i stated in my previous post it costs more to build each frs/brz compared to the genesis coupe or mass produced impreza wrx, even without boost. In a free market like the us, that means toyota/subaru has direct disadvantage in pricing the frs/brz competitively to the gen coupe or even subaru's own wrx.
But yeah, it's a free market, so if toyota/subaru can't price the car competitively enough people aren't gonna buy it. Of course consumers don't care about the economic factors, they're just gonna buy what they want, and so are you. So if you think the price is gonna be so uncompetitive just buy a gen coupe then, or whatever other car you think IS worth the money, and go post in that forum. I personally will remain here and probably buy this car, and i know a lot of other people are gonna do the same thing, because based on the reviews and all the talk of what the engineers were aiming for, i have a feeling this car is gonna be worth the price, even with 150 lbft and no boost.
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Originally Posted by Gadflyii
Funny.. .if you have made them a few times, then surely this is not the first time you have been wrong.. you think you would of learned by now.
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Oh, but wait, just because i feel that way i'm wrong huh? And every new z owner and every new miata owner is wrong, just because you said so right? So ridculous some of the things you'll see posted on the web.
Free market doesn't mean all carmakers can create cars with the same specs at the same cost and msrp. That expectation is just naive and unrealistic.