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Originally Posted by mav1178
20 years ago I had the same arguments with people over why Nissan stopped selling the S15 Silvia and R34 GT-R.
I basically asked people if they would fork over $25k for a S15... but then the argument went downhill once you looked up sales numbers for the 2nd gen Eclipse base models vs the performance GS-T w/ 4G63 engines. You could take the same argument and look at Z32 sales numbers (NA vs TT), Supra sales numbers, 3000GT sales numbers...
The problem always exists: "everyone" wants their own "pure" sports cars, but there simply isn't enough of the public to justify building them. Japan may have had all the cool cars for a long time, but do you know what sells there? K-cars. Cars below 1600cc or 1300cc. Cars that work in streets in Tokyo and Osaka and other places with tiny streets.
In the end, everyone has a say but no one is thankful that Toyota had the balls to pull this one off, especially considering how fiscally conservative they are as a global company.
-alex
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I will give them credit once they offer a manual version
