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Old 10-23-2012, 11:57 PM   #161
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I'm sure the Accord also had millions of dollars of development money. And for every "feature" by your definition that the Accord doesn't have, there was money spent on things the twins don't, namely NVH. They cancel each other out.

What is important is what will happen to the price when a several thousand dollar turbo is added. Increasing the HP by N/A methods should halve the price increase I believe. Many car companies give upto 20HP increases with only the standard yearly price increase for example.

I'm saying they sort of shot themselves in the foot for initial pricing with little room for performance increase without pricing themselves out of competition in the process. Who the hell buys a $30k Civic for example? Sure, a handful of people, just like the two people who paid almost $40k for their FR-S in my area...with just a 5-axis kit and Bespoke.

*really done now, horse has become glue.
Haha I'm not sure I agree with all of that, but yeah the horse is definitely glue now
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