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Originally Posted by Vman455

Even at relatively low price, I don't think it would sell. Witness the first Honda Insight which, according to the New York Times, sold just over 18,000 units globally in 7 model years. According to them:



$21,530 is $28,204 today. Even made out of steel, with a conventional gas engine and/or plug-in drivetrain, and at that price point or lower, I don't think the XL1 would find many buyers. It would have the same issues as the original Insight, and the sea of potential competitors (in both car and SUV form) is even larger now.

I would say it's a shame we don't act more rationally as new car buyers, but the very idea of having a 1000+ kg car to cart around 50-150 kg of person is itself irrational most of the time.

Irrational buyers is the reason it could succeed. All they need is to be held in emotion-mode, and not allowed to think at all, in order to win them over. They'll do whatever a television or computer screen tells them. The bright side of Orwell.