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> standard rhetoric for marketing high-performance/sports vehicles, which tend to be bought by men and tend to be bought by people who modify them for off-road
by pc86 5y ago
> standard rhetoric for marketing high-performance/sports vehicles, which tend to be bought by men and tend to be bought by people who modify them for off-road (race track) usage.
The number of people tracking vehicles is so incredibly small that I don't think you can say any vehicle in mass production "tends to be" bought by those who would do it.
- tristor 5y agoDepends on what you mean by "mass production". Most of these high performance vehicles are small volume production for major brands and are sold often at a loss as halo cars to improve brand image so they don't appear boring. Look at the Toyota 86 as an example, there are multiple entire spec series and spec classes built around this chassis in different racing organizations around the world. At the same time, this car that's been produced since 2012 and is still in production has a total global sales volume over its entire lifespan and its siblings (FRS, BRZ) that is less than 1/10th of the the sales volume of Camry for a single calendar year just in the US. But unlike Camry, I would hazard the guess that at least 1/4th of all the FRS/86/BRZ sold will see track time before they end up in a scrap yard (maybe not with the original owner, though).