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Originally Posted by niky
Blame the buyers.
If people would buy them, car companies would sell them. Only if the Spark is a huge hit will other makers jump on the bandwagon. As it is, I don't see that happening. Only Mitsubishi seems desperate enough to try.
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Define people, the 15% of the population that is middle class 50-100k per year?
Or are you talking the folks that don't buy new cars?
Or the folks who have money but like such things anyway?
The key here is that people will buy them but the people who want to buy them are not willing to spend the pricing point needed to make it happen.
Chicken and the egg, folks with cash will buy things mostly irrespective of how much it penalizes them at the pump and they usually buy most new cars. Folks who care usually have too small of a budget to bother companies to cater to them or are too cheap.
In my mind however these mentalities could be gradually edumacated out but school, ads, government and businesses themselves would have to market themselves differently for many years to come.
Gone are the days that a truck has a thriftmaster engine but our true american roots could maybe be brought out once again if we could break away from this ideotic iphun crap.
Ah well.