I’m holding out for a Retro-Grom. Guess I’ll just soldier along with the Grom’s Grandparent for a while longer...

Shit, I own a Mustang and the Fusion Sport might be my next car. After driving one, I’m seriously impressed by the handling. The only disappointment is that 250hp doesn’t move the car as much as I’d like. I imagine I’ll have no complains in that department with the Fusion Sport.

This is much more common than you think. Pricing for high-tech goods is complicated. As an example, the Apple Pencil sells for $100, even though the Pencil itself has only $15 of hardware in it. This is because the iPad pro has another $15 of hardware to support the Pencil. About a third of iPad pro buyers buy the…

I would say that Ford is the most serious about having a performance oriented product portfolio that isn’t exclusive to V8 and RWD.

So the E43 is not a sports sedan?

Last month I rented a 2016 Fusion and put more than 2200 miles on it. For the money, this is a fabulous car and if my 1927 model driveway and garage were larger, I’d own one. It is a poor man’s Audi.

For a lower budget sport sedan as long as it isn’t a CVT it is probably OK.

I feel like out of the 3 “American” automakers right now... Ford is the only one doing things right. Dodge and Chevy just don’t get it.

This is what the new SHO should have been.

I thought (hoped) that was all fake.

Wow if they actually have the same exact hardware but limit it with software, that’s a fucking scam. Literally costs them $0.00 to just “activite” the remainder of the power

Simple micro-economics demonstrates that if you have buyers with a higher reserve price (People that are willing to pay $80k for the 75kw product) but price the product too low you leave money on the table in the form of consumer surplus.

Classic 2nd Degree Price Discrimination

Because this is pure profit. No additional engineering, no additional manufacturing lines and no additional support. Just a new SKU and a few lines of code. Welcome to software licensing. You build 1 and then you keep selling the same thing over and over.

Someone is beginning to understand the concept of elasticity! Perhaps, when they did a market analysis, they determined that the drop in sales would be more than made up for by the increase in price per vehicle. Also, perhaps they took into account the increased cost to produce additional vehicles.

Maybe they had a bunch of leftover ‘60' badges they want to use up...

If they did that, they wouldn’t make any extra fun money. That’s how these companies have Foosball tables and isolation tanks in their offices. That stuff doesn’t come cheap you know.

“Volume = profit”

The other thing to keep in mind is most of the time the detuned engine also gets better mileage. So it’s not really even detuned, just tuned for efficiency instead of power. Here they are just taking away range with no benefit.

Yet I strongly doubt the 75 W setting suddenly destroys the battery in six months. There is certainly a margin at that level too - this is just a straight up scam.