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Originally Posted by JDMDreams
I wonder why they even bother with this. Does the gr86, Miata even sell enough to make money? It's such a mid effort. Rsx, Accord coupe, Camry coupe, crz all got discontinued. Even tlx and Acura is pretty dead for their half assed efforts. Only thing that's remotely decent is 400z but that's still too much $. Supra doesn't count cuz it's a BMW.
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IMO the Miata has always been Mazda's "affordable" halo car, so it would be a mistake for them to get rid of it. GR86 is a joint effort -- ie. cost-shared -- between Toyota and Subaru, with the 1st gen car started life sharing some existing Impreza parts to help reduce cost. And then the 2nd car is very much a refinement of the 1st gen, so I am guessing the overall development costs are nowhere nearly as high as a freshly developed and independent model?
It also seems reasonable to assume that this 6th gen Prelude didn't cost Honda very much in development money since it is very much a shared platform + parts bin effort. But it is being priced between the Civic hybrid and CTR. So I guess Honda's expected sales numbers would at least allow them to make some money out of the car.
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Originally Posted by supafamous
re: spoiler - I saw the Honda one in one of the videos and it looks good and Mugen is going to offer one as well (along with much better looking BBS wheels)
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The Mugen rear spoiler should have been an OEM piece that came on a high trim Prelude. Keep the base model wingless / spoiler-less so that people wanting the better look would fork out more money for the higher trim level. Shouldn't that have been standard practice for auto manufacturers?
And then Mugen and others should be making something the size of a Cayman GT4 wing for the Prelude.