Auto Marketing never fails to keep me wondering. For instance, I'm always looking out for new offerings of 4-door hatches that aren't SUVs. There are surprisingly few. When I see sensible products like this Toyota:
I realize it's not coming to America: it might displace sales of gas guzzlers here...so we can't have them.
And then, some things happen that seem so contrary to a sensible product direction that I want to scream. For example, take the Toureg Cabrio:
I just shake my head and remember nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. It seemed the epitome of the "wrong direction" in so many ways. I had to look at it a few times before I saw that it was a "day of the innocents" joke. I'm so jaded, I fully expected it was a real product.
