So you think if they brought back the LC300 to the US with a $100K sticker it would sell like hot cakes? Toyota had to make a change. They choose to make the LC more affordable and improve mpg with im guessing a goal of selling a lot more than 7,000 vehicles a year. Their target is the whole US not just Ih8mud.
I seem to have offended you.
The only offense is that you've attempted some kind of condescending 'gotcha' but in reality you provided nothing of substance. Your initial post was full of logical fallacies that show you weren't really prepared to have a discussion beyond asserting yourself as edgy and ignorant. "Sounds like these guys don't know anything about big business, heh heh!!"
I'm someone who has worked professionally in the auto industry, am degreed in marketing, studied in psychology, and am still actively self-employed in an industry that is
very supply and demand oriented. I understand business, especially when it comes to sales.
Nah, man.
You don't understand big business. There's a massive value to brand loyalty, and there's a massive amount of psychological knowledge/understanding that goes in to maintaining that brand loyalty. As I mentioned earlier, this is the reason the Mustang still exists, or the 911. It's the reason that when Chevy brought back the Camaro after a hiatus, the name didn't get put on to a Cobalt. It's why Ford will sell you a "Bronco", which is closer to scratching the nostalgic itch of the original, and a "Bronco Sport", which is more appealing to a broader market but still is not the real-deal. It's the reason the new 'Mitsubishi Eclipse' and Chevy 'TrailBlazer' and recent Pontiac GTO are flops. Big businesses, who absolutely do get things wrong, decided to take established brand names, names capable of pulling in buyers based on nostalgia, and put them on to vehicles that were not adequate to carry that name. Toyota wants to sell more SUVs, that's great. They could do just that by selling the 250 as a Prado, and leaving the full-flavored LC out of this market for a while. It would have captured all the same down-market sales and built up an expectation/demand for the return of the real LC in the future.
Yes, Toyota is very much interested in the secondary market. They aren't only thinking of selling $100K LCs to original owners. They're wanting to tout resale value. The LC has, for decades, been the halo car. It's the vehicle people aspire to when they buy their first 4Runner or whatever. It's the quality, overbuilt car that keeps people in the Toyota family. You can test out new tech in the flagships and then carry it down to lesser models. That's how SRS seat belts, ABS, and airbags all exist. Thank the S-Class for that. Do you know how many times Mercedes has moved their S-class down market? None times. They build down-market cars to capture down-market sales. You don't castrate your flagship brand in an attempt to capture more sales. That's objectively stupid.
Your points were debated already. Yes, the 250 will be a much better seller. If that's the only true point you can make, great... Everyone clap at this guy. He's figured it all out.
