I wonder: has anyone ever followed Torch’s recommendation? 

“Check your privilege” is usually asinine, I agree. But for once, it serves a purpose. You seriously don’t understand some people’s limitations. Having options doesn’t mean having good options. You, apparently, are lucky enough to have better options. Other people aren’t.

I can’t believe I am about to say this, but you really should check your privilege. There are a ton of people in this country who can only buy houses that they can afford, not that they want.

Every bit of the article compared his Town Car to things much better than it, that one was no different. He was sarcastically saying that it had power to rival those cars.

I kind of figured as much, but couldn’t help but to call you out lol. Don’t get me wrong, Cleveland has some crappy neighborhoods, but I don’t know of many (or any) old row homes like that.

In case you missed the entire article, it was said sort of tongue in cheek

I hardly think that Mack lives in East Cleveland, which, by the way, is not where that picture is taken.

I’m not a fan, and I agree it can be somewhat confusing on which to focus, but I want to point out that this isn’t even the first Kia/Hyundai product to do this. The sportage did it already.

I think you are seriously underestimating the amount of money in R&D, marketing, and model variation required to do this, all so they can what, sell the same overall number of cars? Why would Subaru spend extra money to shift sales from one car to the other? Have you also ever heard of brand image? Making the BRZ…

I was wondering how far I’d have to scroll to find you

Funny, but not really the same thing. Many people buy WRXs and STIs because they are the performance Subarus. People do not buy the Camry because it is a performance car. If the BRZ had STI power, you know damn well that a good amount of people would pick the RWD sports coupe over the 4 door sedan. Sure, not all of…

It wouldn’t be complete cannibalization, but there would certainly be a good amount. If the BRZ made STI, or even WRX power, there would be plenty of people who would buy it before they bought the STI because, frankly, it’d be more fun. Subaru doesn’t want anything to top the STI, though, because the STI is their halo…

A percentage increase of another car’s engine is completely irrelevant. If it came with a 1hp engine and was double to 2hp, it wouldn’t mean anything.

The world does not exist in a binary state. You can have a moderately high performance daily driver that you hammer through a few turns a day and gas after a stoplight and still enjoy driving. You don’t need to be a weekend track warrior to enjoy driving, but I get it, you are a cool track day bro.

Who cares? Usually the company that is out to make as much money as they can on any given investment, that’s who. I don’t think a business degree is required to understand that cannibalizing your sales is a bad thing, especially when R&D costs so much. As far as being a “tuned econo car”, you do realize that it is as…

Yeah, it is hard to understand until you buy a crazy low mile/nice older and rare car.

Buying a car with absurdly low mileage is a tough thing. On one hand, you have basically a brand new somewhat vintage car to rack up miles on and enjoy, but on the other hand it truly is hard to convince yourself to put wear, tear, and mileage on something so pristine. Just 4 years ago, I had a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix…

Original price really has nothing to do with collectible value, though. Those $200k classic mopars weren’t hugely expensive cars in their day.

There is no way, even if they did increase power, that they would touch that number. Not only would it cannibalize WRX (or even STI!) sales, but it would be a pretty absurd jump in power for a car that small. Another 25-40 hp is way more realistic and practical, but still not going to happen.

But those cars also weren’t designed and advertised specifically as collector’s variants. Anything MADE to be collectible will not become collectible, because things become collectible due to rarity. The 60s and 70s muscle cars were used, abused, and discarded because nobody expected them to have future value. There…