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Originally Posted by ermax
I am not randomly throwing around numbers. There is a great thread on the topic here:
https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130428
There are some detailed breakdowns on consumables for several cars in that thread. Not simple off the top of people's heads breakdowns but very well thought through details after lots of events. The bottom line is the C7 GrandSport doesn't have expensive consumables because it is lightweight. It's simple physics.
I'm a firm believer in the slippery slope. If we keep ignoring the mass of sports cars they will keep climbing. We will all be driving Teslas because, oooh they are so fast. Well they are slow as balls on a road course. |
You continue to ignore my point.
Many, many, many people track the heavier cars and don't care one little bit how much the consumables cost. They just don't care. You care, Wolf cares, most of the people on this forum care but the people driving those cars do not. It does not make them wrong.
We are not talking about ignoring the mass of cars as the very existence of the 86 shows that some people are still listening. Will we see the days of many different models of
cheap, light, sports car return? No, they are gone but that does not mean that nobody will ever make one or two models again. They just won't be as light and if they are they won't be as cheap. It is simple economics that not enough people buy them. Even those that are worried will save a few bucks and buy a used one. As I have said several times here people that are whining about the demise of the light weight car need to put their money where their mouth is and go buy them. Not used since the company makes zero money that way. Buy new ones and show them there is a market or STFU and stop complaining they are disappearing.