I have a feeling Mclaren needs the money on both the F1 & car production side. Also, VAG probably wants McLaren cars in the fold, so Williams won’t be of any value there.

I remember back in 2000 I was buying F150, visited one dealership that had most of their trucks in white for some reason, but all with $500-$1000 of tacked on accessories.

I have no issues with In N Out fries, also what is the price point of Culver’s?

I’m sure even in Europe that got to do that in order to make the dealership profitable, since they sell so few cars in general.  They have a plan to change that, these new cars coming up is part of that plan. 

Or course, though it’s small in the US, I think less than 40 dealerships.

“Im not buying it new, let all the suckers take the depreciation hit, and I’ll buy it a few years later. My plan it fullproof!”

But how do Lotus dealerships get money from that? They are independently owned. They need a volume product to make money, and that’s where this SUV comes in.

Could be said of any other extravagant vehicle of any fuel source including sports cars, supercars, exotics, etc. 

And likely so does a Taycan, Tesla Plaid, Model X, or any other high-powered and heavy EV right?

Because their dealership network needs more product that sells.

True, but same could be said about the Cayenne, and now we have a million 911 variants.  

I don’t think they really crush street racing cars either, the only cars on record I know to have been crushed was a ex-showcar Lexus without a vin (given to the state for the purpose of crushing), and four sport compacts in 2008 done as a publicity stunt by the state.

Why would they go to the crusher? If the insurance paid for them, you would think whatever company compensated the dealership would then recover the cars and sell them at auction.   

Absolutely, let me clarify, it uses less gasoline than a Prius.   

Nah, I like it, it’s a step in the right direction. Still uses less fuel than a Prius. Yes it’s big, but it still has to be a “Hummer” right, not like this is the Silverado or some other mainstream high volume truck.

I agree it’s perfect for EV, but I suspect maybe it has to do with budgets. They get a budget approval for these vehicles, but the amounts limits what they can buy, including charging network.

San Diego county is actually right up to the Border, of the 4 million people in that county, getting across would be short and easy for a lot of them. There are quite a few Americans that actually live in Mexico and go across to work.

I mean these are carrying a lot of mail moving at very low speeds and constantly idling, of course the mpg will be low on that cycle.

The whole paragraph I wrote was about cars in high demand, not regular cars that don’t command a high price. If you didn’t realize that, I made sure to clarify my statement.

True, but I read most of those were complaints about being FWD with no AWD version from people in places where you should have AWD.