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Originally Posted by jamesqf
The problem with this, though, is that when you design a car to appeal to as many people as possible, you're ensuring that
1) It'll be almost exactly like the cars your competitors built to try to appeal to as many people as possible, so all of you are going head-to-head for that part of the market.
2) There is a significant part of the market to whom your car doesn't appeal at all.
So if you're an intelligent automaker, you might deliberately build cars that don't try to appeal to the mass market, but which have niche markets all to themselves.
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But if you do that, and the wind changes (e.g. fuel prices fall, maybe temporarily for example) then you get stuck with eco inventory whilst everyone is off buying SUVs again.