I think people overlook the scale of high net worth individuals and how much they have/gain in the stock market vs. relatively small players like 401k holders the median 401k balance is $22k. That’s really low.

I think that only half the country owns stocks is pretty telling. And I’d be more impressed with that number if it represented only the segment of the population with a meaningful net worth in the stock market vs. their age. Also, you’re ignoring the SCALE at which the real investor class is involved in the stock…

The entire stock market is fake money being propped up by quantitative easing that is only really going to the investor class. If all of that money actually started circulating we might even get some inflation. If there’s anything 2020 has done, is drive that point home. 

Agreed. I’ve had PPIs on a bunch of cars - your best bet is finding a specialist in that particular car so they run through the gamut of known issues, but no one is going through your used car with a fine-toothed comb. PPIs have their limits. Depending on the cut and weld, damage to the C Pillar would have been pretty…

Yeah. Dude. Seriously how hard is it to design a screen in a 200k car that doesn’t look like it’s been tacked on as an afterthought. Honestly it’s the worst thing about modern interiors.

Why are the only options anemic NA or 800 HP turbo car?

The issue with the BRZ isn’t that it’s NA. It’s that in a 4 cylinder configuration, you aren’t getting enough nuts. It doesn’t need to have even 300 hp, but torque reaching in the 250 range, makes a ton of difference in usable speed. No one seriously wrings out a…

?? That’s it?

Most of those statements are true, but - how considerably? Because I’m not sure it would be that considerable.

Yes, please make this about a CRX build as opposed to the massive increased in turbo cars across the sport car range. The only company that has reversed itself is Porsche, and even then it wasn’t the forced induction, it was the 4banger. Shit Lotus is making some of the best, light sportscars out there.....with...wait…

No. Disingenuous would be pretending that there aren’t beaucoup reliable forced induction engines out there. Current turbo setups are also REALLY responsive. The lag in the MKVI GTI vs. the lag in the current GTI is incredibly different, and that’s at the low end of the spectrum. Also disingenuous would be pretending…

And here’s the money answer right here. True statement, and thats what pisses me off about the car. Same with Porsche and the Cayman. I think they need to think less about competing product lines, and think more about the next car up the ladder that this thing could take on.

Lol. Currently own a car that weighs the same, has marginally more power, much higher torque, and revs higher, which is also a riot to drive, can confirm that a little more power would also be nice.

Having built a 90s era CRX with forced induction... Please do tell me about the very real tradeoffs that would have made me not want to do that.

I’m going to get panned for this, but I wonder if they realize or don’t care that with forced induction this car would be a car in the mold of the WRX when it came out and had almost the power of an M3 for soooo much less money. Maybe its selling fine without, but I keep seeing this car as a “good enough” effort…

A 3 row within shouting distance of the price outselling it. Be sure to let me know when GM sends you those rental sales numbers. 

Yeah. Just a little less to the older Pilot. Without disclosing fleet sales. Winner. 

I think it’s being held back because it looks like an econo shitbox with a mediocre interior and the exterior proportions of a Prius. It has all the excitement of lightly warmed over day old toast and yet somehow you can price it up to nearly half a hundred stacks.

1. Labor is a long process where you can be pretty damn “normal” during fairly substantial stretches.
2. They made a choice, and unless you’re an obstetrician, I’d say you have no basis for your criticism.

Unless you can clearly outline the risks and quantify them. I think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. 

Not getting the journalist analogy. Software and digital journalism are both digital in the same way some currency is green and leaves can also be green. The way you consume digital media from a journalist and a software product are totally different. Maybe I’m misreading the level of shade in the OPs post, but seems…

Yeah man. It’s like the parent company execs went to business school in a classroom in the basement of 80s era GM. Taking a page from 101 Cost-Cutting Strategies to Max My Quarterly Bonus isn’t an actual strategy.