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Originally Posted by serialk11r
There's gotta be a reason no one else is jumping in right?
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Nobody gonna buy it. The problem with sports cars is that the people who lust after them can't afford them, and the people who can afford them don't want the rawness they yearned for in their youth anymore. Cheap sports cars suffer from too much compromise to reach their price point. Expensive ones are built for their demographics (and guess what, it's not a single 25 years old track rat or canyon carver).
Mazda really deserve applause for keeping the MX5 as pure as they did for over 30 years (and it's this heritage that allows it to survive in the current market so well). Other than that you only get short lived models that get their 6-7-8 years in the sun and then get devoured by the bean counters - the MR2s, the S2000, the RX-7/8 (or whatever your fancy takes you).
It's shaping up that the Twins will follow suit (either with no second gen or with a watered down one), although I'd be really happy to be proven wrong by Toyota and Subaru. At the current climate in the car industry, I don't see a replacement for my BRZ.