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Old 02-14-2015, 10:47 PM   #178
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Originally Posted by Sideways&Smiling View Post
Meh. People are blowing the sales decline out of proportion. Nobody outside of Toyota knows what they predicted as far as sales go. Sales have been pretty damn good compared to MANY other sports cars of the 90s/2000s. Sure, it's not selling as well as a Camry or Civic or whatever, but no sports car ever will.
They wanted to build 100k a year:

http://www.ft86club.com/?p=1345

I don't think they hit that (It took nearly 2 years for the first 100k) and given current numbers and history of Japanese sports cars they never will. It's done well but I don't think it met optimistic expectations, it probably exceeded minimum expectations, but doesn't exactly bode well for long term viability of the small lightweight sports car market.
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