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Old 06-20-2011, 02:54 PM   #441
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Originally Posted by madfast View Post
oh lawd. semantics....

during an economic depression sports coupes have exploded? which sports coupes exactly? link to a source?
Sales of Mustang, Camaro, Genesis Coupe, Challenger are all healthy, as are the Accord and Altima Coupe. The market segment is more alive than it has been in decades. Sales numbers for individual vehicles haven't spiked to a huge degree...but they also haven't dropped, even though more and more vehicles are entering the segment. Steady sales of multiple vehicles in the same segment is irrefutable proof of segment growth.

And it's not semantics. There's a major difference between a Sports Coupe and a Sports Car. 2 seaters, regardless of price, are almost exclusively second vehicles. Many people buy a sports-coupe as their only vehicle, because it's just practical enough to get by with, yet still fun. So it's definitely not semantics; more like "major difference in demographics."
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