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Old 07-14-2012, 11:08 AM   #268 (permalink)
Diesel_Dave
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Originally Posted by drmiller100 View Post
I think the real market is performance commuter. No one cares about a car which will get 80 mpg, but EVERYONE seems interested in a cool car which flat frigging SMOKES a vette and gets 50mpg.
I think this is a very good point. As much as we're all about fuel economy on this forum, I think it's wise to realize there's probably not a wide market apeal out there for that yet. It looks to me like you had two options:
A: Good fuel economy and good perfomance
B: Great fuel economy and okay perfomance
If you were only trying to market to the folks on this site, then option B would be the way to go. However, I think you'll get a lot farther by going with option A, as you have. There's more people and more money out there to appeal to that way.

BTW, do you have any videos yet?
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