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Originally Posted by madfast
so you really think they can make a niche car and sell it at a regular price? i know you'd like to see it but lets get real here. the fact remains that this is an all new car with all new everything. it will NOT cost as much as a car whose chassis and main interior parts are shared with its more utilitarian version. the FT doesnt have a utilitarian version. and for it to exist to begin with, it will have to be priced higher. simple stuff. the fact that you dont want to pay extra for it is your own problem. but dont make that personal problem seem like its toyota/subaru's problem cuz it surely aint...
again. the miata is its own car. it will have to be priced higher than you think it should, to even exist. if it was a "special" version of a car that they already sell millions of, then i can see your point; BUT as it stands, that's simply not the case. and as such, the miata is not a "rip off" at its current price point. neither will the FT be. neither was the S2000 (35k for a 4 banger?), so on and so forth...
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S2000 = huge rip off.
And yes, Toyota will have to take a small hit on this car at the beginning, until the tooling and development is paid for. Additionally, it is not all new everything. The base frame is modified from a Subie chassis, the engine is a Subie engine, the transmission was already in existence, the interior will be from the parts-bin, etc.
The simple fact remains: It is ludicrous to sell this vehicle at prices where it will get killed in performance. RX-8 redux. So, it should either be priced even lower, or it should perform on par with other similarly priced performance cars. If Toyota can't make that happen, then believe me....it will definitely be their problem.