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Well Folks,
I am quite amazed at the direction this thread has taken as well as volume of responses.
If I were doing a dissertation for a PhD in marketing, this would have been a perfect footnote on research into consumer opinion and needs.
The responses have shown that the product does not have to work very well, (from a pure engineering standpoint) but it does have to do the following:
1. Set off car alarms when used.
2. Entice every other driver on the road (If they drive a rice rocket, a Camaro or Mustang) to race said vehicle.
3. Attract People who have 44 Magnums.
4. Attract People who have had dirt bike and road bike experience.
5. Attract People who need to equate the car with personal freedom and the right to have assault/military weapons.
6. Attract People who supersize everything. (If even this is in their imagination and not their wives opinion.)
7. Attract People who believe 50hp is as dangerous in a 2350lbs car as 500 hp.
8. Sorry, the list is too big already
I wish that I had the time to review all of the posts to make this a true analysis of the demographics involved, but I just do not have the patience/fortitude needed to continue. (And I certainly do not have the desire)
My original point was just this:
The platform that we all are dealing with has a HP and Torque number that works from a dynamic standpoint.
It has nothing to do with street racing, death rates, testosterone, Big block, small block, impressing the public, or the length of your unit.
It is all about an engineering exercise to produce a vehicle that works. For everyone.
Of course there is the always the 99th percentile who can deal outside of the parameters of the rest of us are bound to.
Jeze, I wish I was one them.
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