[strat61caster]

Not interested in 'performance cars' interested in what used to be called a sports car: affordable, lightweight, & fun. Horsepower is cheap, quality chassis and suspension isn't. Let BMW, Porsche, Mclaren & Ferrari play with their magazine reviewers and 0.1% buyers, idgaf, they're not getting my money. This isn't politics where I have to vote for the lesser of two evils, instead of bitching about how heavy and numb the M3/M4 is the enthusiast who actually cares about the things in the article will maintain his E30/E36, maybe go out and buy a Fiesta ST or Miata. Auto manufacturers make what gets them profit, the cars we care about simply aren't terribly profitable.

The 86 prompted a lot of hype, a lot of automakers saying to journo's "Oh maybe we'll do that too!" but it didn't outsell the mustang/camaro/challenger, and it was never going to. Mazda will keep doing what it does, other automakers may experiment to profit off of pent up demand (See Focus RS filling the gap the EVO/STI have left behind) but ultimately we keep putting our money where our mouths are.

Maybe we'll get a few S660's or SFR's, maybe Tesla's new Model 3 will deliver some Mazdaspeed3-like performance and practicality, maybe the Focus RS will outperform targets and will be a model that's here to stay, maybe Alfa Romeo delivers on the Giulia to cheers of praise and a large slice of market share. Those are the things I care about in the near future, let the armchair quarterbacks bitch about the GTR refresh or C7 overheating issues, idgaf, there's plenty of fun cars out there to tinker with and autocross and track and there will be for a very long time. It's always been that way and it's not going to change because now the M3 is 3,500 lbs instead of the 3,200 lbs it was 20 years ago.