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Originally Posted by Megatron96
I have a question: why can't an American car company build a really good sports coupe? Not a sports car, since we really only have the one (Corvette), but a couple (2 doors, 4 seater)? Seems like the only thing we've got is a Ford Focus ST, which isn't a coupe, but just a hot hatch.
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It’s been awhile since I looked at this stuff but IIRC the EPA crap that Obama’s crew put in said that a certain % of a company’s fleet has to meet whatever fuel guidelines. So there’s no margin in cars so that’s where they put the tiny engines gutless pieces of shit. There’s margin in pickups and large SUVs so that’s where they put big motors.
It’s not like Chevy couldn’t make a mainstream Malibu or Impala that could perform like a bottom end BMW. It’s that they’d have to cut out a profitable platform to do it.