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Originally Posted by Casper
The market for V8 cars in Oz is dead apart from a few bespoke imports from the US and the very few from Europe which are rapidly disappearing.
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There's never been a V8 fitted to a Camry anywhere around the world, sold through a dealership, but Toyota off the back of their entry in the Truck series with the Tundra made the move up to Cup series. They've kept the Camry in Cup, changed the Xfinity series to Supra and have kept the formula the same.
You don't see a V8 in a Supra in a showroom, but they know how to leverage the marketing from the racing in series.
Same goes here, any halfwit without a marketing degree can say it won't work. But a halfwit with a marketing degree, supreme knowledge of the demographics at the track, and with a well thought out plan could sell ice to the eskimo's.
We are being told that the V8 market is dead for road cars because of emissions, polar bears running out of icebergs to suck on and some little girl in Europe having a tantrum. Which is all fair enough, I don't disagree with all of that (except tantrums, kids need discipline). But motorsport makes up how much of emissions?? We don't race every day, nor every of the 52 weekends we have a year. With the right "V8 only" formula, sustainable fuels, hybrid power, eco tyre compounds, solar offsets, reduce food wastage racing product, people could still enjoy racing in some shape or form and choose to drive that product of the manufacture.
We need group therapy to get over this whole
it needs to look like this and have this in the showroom and then be the same on track.
The cardinal sin was putting a Ford engine in a Chevy or vice-versa, but now that would be deemed putting a ICE in an Electric vehicle. I wouldn't be expecting any manufacture to do something like that.