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Old 02-12-2011, 01:19 PM   #19 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
1. What sells. F150 has been the #1 selling vehicle in N.A. for decades, not Metros. All the mfgs are going to try to build F150s then.
But of course that means that all of us who don't want an F-150 or clone are left out in the cold. It's essentially the same thinking that lost the US auto industry 50% of the US market: because their big cars sold well, they thought they could go on making only big cars, leaving a market niche where the VW Beetle and all its followers could penetrate.

It's this kind of thinking that persuades me that the thread title is the problem: we can't change the automakers' minds because they don't HAVE minds.
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