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Originally Posted by TheBRZ
Sales are on a decline, a power-upgrade surely will fix it and perhaps get the market ready for the 2nd gen!
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I am always amazed when people say that a power increase will improve sales. It will not necessarily improve them since for every "more power bro" that wants it they will lose at least one sale to the "Average Joe". They will take it for a test drive and be scared shitless, wanted better mileage or are not willing to pay the price that more power will drive the car up to (it won't be free). We tend to forget that many (most?) of these cars are not bought by the enthusiast but by people that think it looks cool or just wanted a small, sporty coupe. This is also why there are so many low mileage used ones around since people used to nothing but FWDs bought them and found out that RWD is not the same and did not suit their planned usage.
My point is that to have huge sales a car needs to fit the needs of several demographics and although more power will certainly bring in one group it will completely turn off others.