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Originally Posted by madfast
but MOST will buy it for its price...
again, you overlook the fact that a sportscar is a niche car, and as you go up in price, the prospective buyer pool goes down, way down. i wouldnt be surprised if it was exponential. you throw around a 5-10k price difference as if it was nothing. to you maybe, but to most people, they wont pay for a higher priced, higher performance car.
but a 30k japanese sportscar? thats a hard sell man...  |
Price is a factor, yes. Sports car.. lets call it a sport compact for now.
Price should not go up because of performance and turbo.. they are doing a joint venture with a car manufacturer who makes turbo engines and turbos, so the instant resources are there, especially when the engine is from that manufacturer, they reused an existing new chassis(lets not argue about this).
To be honest the car to me in n/a form should be $20k and turbo should be $23-24k if it's badged as a Scion. This car has less space, less room, no sunroof, has 17s, being RWD should give it a $1-2k premium over the tC in n/a form.
Now making it 220-250hp is not going to make it compete with a WRX or STi.. it has no AWD, small cargo space and can't sit 5 people, and doesn't have a decent amount of roof for racks. Only if this car was AWD would it compete with these 2 in performance category.
Let's stop making excuses why this car can't be awesome.