Re: alfa-digest V9 #277

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

Apples and oranges. Two entirely different market segments. For 
instance,  I would love to have an AWD 'boy-rally-car' but wouldn't buy 
an SUV if they were the only cars on earth (and the way things are 
going, that's not nearly as far-fetched as it sounds). I don't want AWD 
for traction in the snow or mud, I want one for HANDLING. A word which 
is in no truck-based SUV's vocabulary. NOBODY who contemplates a hot 
rally car-derived Focus is going to mistake the car for a mini SUV. \

George Graves
'86 GTV-6



On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 12:18 US/Pacific, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:30:12 -0500
> From: Dana Loomis <dloomis@domain.elided>
> Subject: re: Ford Focus Rally
>
> > There is no reason why, that any one can can
> > come up with, anyway, Ford does not sell their AWD WRC version of the
> > Focus here in the States.
> I can come up with one.  Everyone who buys an AWD car because of the
> improved traction that configuration offers is a person who might have
> bought a 4WD SUV, but didn't.  Do the math: Ford makes more money on 
> the SUV.
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