Like offering manual transmissions only with lower trim levels and smaller engines because nobody buys manual transmissions?

Probably true, but the WRX STi is also popular in places where it doesn’t snow.

See my replies to others. Camaro isn’t a sales threat to Corvette. Corvette has done and will do fine.

Too many people give up their fun cars for cosseting cars way too easily.

How’s it a threat? GM doesn’t want to build more than 36,000 Corvettes a year. They can’t, really, given where and how it’s built. Corvette sales remain healthy, despite the Camaro ZL1 and Z/28. The base Corvette still outperforms a Camaro SS. And the hardcore benchracers will always view higher-performance Camaros…

As much as we might like the idea of a BRZ STi, and as much as the future of lightweight RWD sports coupes might be harmed by the Toyobaru fading away with a whimper and not a bang, almost anything else Toyota and Subaru could pay attention to has better risk/reward. Sigh.

I know how good it can feel to triumphantly split hairs on the Internet, but this time your source is old. Check the end of your Nope — that’s from before the Detroit show. Here’s from after:

The LS7 is past, not present. They still make almost everything as a crate motor. But they’re not about to put a big block on the Camaro options sheet either.

And yet the Camaro SS absolutely is not a sales threat to the base Corvette.

“They’d lose 10k sales of people who wanted a 2+2 hardtop Miata.” What?

The VW stereotype is someone who thinks a VW is a nicer thing that isn’t showing off.

Yes, Volkswagen is killing it in the US. Heck, in February 2017 sales were up 12.7% over the previous year.

The fact that the turbo won’t fit in the chassis where the turbo is designed to go on the motor was Herr Quattro’s point.

This is why it hasn’t happened, not why it isn’t necessary for the species to survive.

Again, don’t you already have your cheap, affordable sports car? So they made their whole damned point. The car is not sustainable as-is, which is the author’s whole damned point.

Camaro isn’t a sales threat to any other Chevy. And its two core models sell very very well. It has a massive following, and has been anthropomorphized in a massive film franchise.

I wonder, though, could a $40K Brzsti justify itself on Z conquests? Because you’re right, the Z is in its boulevardier / tribute phase. I bet a Subie could snatch the remaining life right out of the Z.

They’d have takers at $40K. But too many of them will come at the expense of the $40K WRX STi.

That’s okay. There is a market for $35K-$40K ~300hp enthusiast cars that aren’t muscle cars.

I admire your pitch, but something tells me if the car could take a 50% power bump and steer clear of expensive and reputation-sullying breakage — performance enthusiasts are merciless when the car isn’t over-engineered — they’d have done it by now.