They can't sell enough copies of a manual AWD version to justify the development cost.

I live in Kentucky. This is par for the course. Stuff like this gets said at the grocery store within earshot of other customers.

SS1 was able to re-enter the way it did because it never made orbital velocity. Kittinger proved that you could drop from a stationary platform at the edge of space, Baumgartner verified it. But jumping off an orbital platform is another thing. You have to get rid of 17,000mph of lateral velocity before hitting the…