Sorry, let me clarify. People are taking the way I use performance to the extreme. If you want to use it in the sense that people care about mileage as a factor in my statement then yes, 50% of people care about performance. I mean in the sense of people that want to drive in a "spirited" fashion, or go to race days etc. When I said performance, I meant, 0-60, handling, braking or whatever form of racing you want to bring up. I honestly don't think that most people care about that kind of performance.
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if 95% of the ENTIRE global market didn't give two shits about performance, we wouldn't have car companies like Ferrari, Lambo, Lotus, *lists a bunch of exotic car manufacturers I don't know how to say / spell*.
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We actually would. In the united states(not exact stats) I believe it's between 1 - 2% of American's make more than 100k a year. Those "exotics" are made for the wealthy. Not for the average driver(talking about the 80k+ cars). It's the same reason companies like Leer Jet are still in business. Marketing to Bill Gates can get you more than enough profit.
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190,625,023 licensed drivers in the US in the year 2000. 5% of that is 9,531,251.
I think 9,531,000 people is a fair estimate of people who care about performance, in the respect to how I brought up.
I just think that if 95 million people cared about performance the way people on the this forum do, it would be a completely different world.