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Originally Posted by Red Bread
An ND Miata is a wildly better car than the BRZ, but I need a back seat.
I continue to be amazed that no one will build a small, rwd, manual sedan or hatch in this realm.
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But that's the problem. One person "needs a backseat", the next "needs an automatic", the next "needs a big trunk", the next "needs a sunroof" and so on. Virtually no one wants "smaller" anything, they all want larger. This is a crazy small niche market. Niches don't sell well. Some do well because you can find people willing to pay for the niche, but the demand has to exist. Look at how trucks have changed over the last 20 years, to be just giant steamrollers. Hell, WRX killed their hatch years ago because the US "doesn't like hatches". The utility to me is far better than a small 4 door sedan, but people just don't want it, not enough to make it a worthwhile business endeavor.