tescoking wrote:If I am someone who works in Mazda then I would want people to drive the MX5 instead of the 86s. But how about others? If the MX5 gets cheaper like the 86 then everyone would go for the MX5, and in that case whose going to buy the Mazda 2,3 & 6? Have you counted the amount of Mazda 2s and 3s on the road? Do we really want to see the MX5 be as common as that? Do we want it to become nothing special just because we want to beat the market? There are so many of us, including myself who looks after and loves our MX5 so dearly because it is a special, convertible and classy type of car. What happens if this car fell into the hands of someone who isn't like us? It can turn out that someone will drive the MX5 and will never look after it? Will you even look at that car again? Eventually the MX5 will become a car that doesn't turn heads anymore. I think the car is sort of like a mirror image to ourselves. It represents me. I would never want to see a MX5 turn into a trash looking vehicle just because it is cheap and people will buy it and not take care of it.
People still buy Corollas and Camry's, since most people don't want impractical sports cars which the MX5 is even more of since it has less seats and less storage.
I might be in the minority but I want to see more people get into these cars not less. It's sad on the days I go to the track and there are more 86's than MX5's there.