Well, I, for one, am totally shocked by this news. I always assumed that Model S and Model X buyers were highly price sensitive, budget conscious consumers who typically cross shopped with the Prius c. 

In other words, our tax dollars were granted to fund a study about the impact of our tax dollars funding luxury and/or limited use vehicle purchases.

News flash: expensive cars purchased by rich people. More at eight.

Duh.

it is very much like the M Sport...which makes it weird...because they had cars like this before...as V Sports...

IMO a lot of the confusion-fueled backlash could have been avoided if they had been crystal clear in their announcement with a “But Hey! Wait! there’s more coming. We are moving down V to make it more affordable and the new V series you know and love is a V+, VS or Blackwing with proper turbo V6 and V8s” or whatever…

Oh great. Now we get to hear from all of the people who wouldn’t have considered buying these cars even if they had a 999 HP V10 and an 8 speed manual gearbox.

Yay, another fascist for F1 to suck up to and another track incredibly important to F1 being relegated to history.

Also worth pointing out that IndyCar ran at a street circuit in Sau Paulo up to 2013, and was actually trying to revive that race recently. Given the timelines involved here, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it is going to be repurposed and upcycled for F1.

I think that you’re right - a shift away from in-house production would be a very big change for Ferrari. The only vehicle I would imagine they would be happy to produce offsite would be the proposed SUV - I imagine it could well share the Stelvio platform to minimise costs, and producing it in a facility shared with…

Allow me to show you to the Mondial T Cabriolet line of cars.

Yep - Ferrari have always restricted their production to maintain exclusivity, so it’s not surprising that an increase in production corresponds directly to an increase in sales. The only question is how long this strategy works for them before they produce more cars than they can sell.

... neither of which are required to be public info.

Which data should they be releasing? It sounds like they are sharing the standard data most insurance companies would care about.

I prefer the V8 as well. The turbo can be more efficient OR more powerful, depending on the motor, but there is something to be said for having a simple NA V8 in a truck that, frankly, doesn’t get poor mileage(for a truck). My GM V8 regularly returns ~20mpg highway. Friends with Ford and ram V8's are in a similar boat.

I WANT a 5.oL V8 Lariat F150 with 4WD, but only seem to find the 2.7T or 3.5TT. My dad wants to replace his V8 Platinum F150 with another V8, but again, good luck finding one. Now we’re both looking at Rams. I don’t know how much of this demand is legitimate, or if it’s manufactured by Ford and the dealers by just not…

So is pivoting to a market that only wants SUVs out of touch?  Or are they supposed to still only make Sedans because SUVs are bad?

Unless your plan would be to bring back Pontiac as a line of performance CUVs, that’s a horrible idea.

Personally, I really like GMC’s and I own one, but at their current costs, don’t expect me to buy one more than every ~10 or so years. They are great to have, but I also own a cheap commuter so I don’t waste a $40k truck driving to work and the grocery store. Good thing too as the mazda got sideswiped last night while…