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Detroit, 7:49 AM
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Have you ever seen a Ford Counsul Capri?
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Oh, here are some purdy pictures of the Capri in action
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You say Alamedans; I say Alamedians.
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Great find! What's he got under there that's protected with hood pins? It's aged really well as a design. And though it shows was US car makers could do as interesting small cars (even the Vega had its points), there seemed to be a basic conflict between small cars/less profit per unit and big cars/more profit--but at the same time, car makers complained not enough people were buying the little ones.
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Although, I'm more into the 3rd-gen Capris. I'm not sure if that says something about me, or if my hometown is analogous to Essex.
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When my father brought home a dozen British car magazines in 1979, I read about how the "3-liter Capri" was England's Mustang. Personally, I think it needed more like five liters, but that's an American thing...
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The only way to gain market share is to fit or exceed the mold; this is a country that thinks the V6 Camcordibu is a good, even a necessary variation. True, there has been some recent backlash, especially when Honda had the audacity to highlight the ridiculous acceleration of their V6 Accord coupe. But the average buyer weighs only feature volume against price.
The American market selects the Corvette over the Elise, with what I imagine to be almost no cross shopping, and the European market does the opposite. It's a tragedy, as both are fantastically capable, yet closely matched cars with incredibly different characters. But the Corvette easily trumps the Elise on paper, 'in features', and the case is closed in the American mind.
As a result, Ford does not import the Focus RS. It would not sell. Never mind point-to-point capability, it does not have AWD to match the STi and Evo X. Never mind acceleration, it does not have the displacement to match Ford's own Mustang.
Forbidden fruits are not withheld out of malice, but it is a punishment, and we do it to ourselves.
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