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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Lets be honest, a tiny $35k Yaris wouldn't sell for shit in the US. A couple thousand would get sold to die hards and the vast majority would laugh it off. A 2-door 3-cylinder up against V8 Mustangs and Camaros?
It's not a 'comedy of errors' it's 'lets not lose hundreds of thousands of dollars by trying to sell this car in a market that doesn't want it'.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. The Yaris GR4 would likely flop in the US. That's just the market here in the US. The vast majority of Americans (even those who supposedly want "sports cars") want muscle cars or sedans. They don't want hot hatches (RIP Speed 3, STI hatch, Fiesta ST, Focus ST/RS, dying Golf R). Hell they don't even want lightweight roadsters (RIP S2000, Sky/Solstice, dying ND Miata) or lightweight coupes (RIP RX-7, RX-8, dying Twins).
People love to blame the manufacturers for not bringing fun, lightweight cars to the US, but you can't blame them. The cars they do bring lose out in the HP wars. Even when people buy them, they don't want to pay new car prices so they buy them used.