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Originally Posted by mav1178
your first post talks about how journalists will be the death of 2+2 cars.
the reason why it's a 2+2 is because car makers are very smart, they know who exactly they want to sell this car to and who will pay for it (which are often two different groups of people, i.e. parents vs children, stay at home parent vs primary/sole income generator), so 2+2 is there purely for insurance + cost of ownership reasons.
otherwise, cost to own a pure 2 seater coupe would be too high. total cost of ownership is the most important thing here, most people just see MSRP and forget there's secondary costs of owning a car such as insurance, maintenance, and whether you can do more than one thing with a single car vs owning 2 or more cars to accomplish the same thing.
The S13/S14, Honda Prelude, and a host of other "entry level sports cars" were all 2+2 for a reason, and it wasn't so you can cram short adults into the back seat.
Journalists won't be the death of cars, it will be regular buyers who 1) do not read enthusiast magazines, and 2) are not as invested in a car as people like you and me.
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If and only if the seat played any part at all in insurance the difference in insurance rates would be so low that it would be meaningless as far as cost of ownership goes.
"Oh it costs me $20 a year more? No way am I buying that car!"
I repeat my repeatedly repeated statement. THINKING THAT THE SEATS REDUCE INSURANCE RATES IS DUMB.