Re: Must See! Beautiful Pre-Production Tango!

[Glenn Wittrock <spamproof@pluggedin.ca>]

"VanDerWal, Peter MSgt" wrote:

> > > Sure, if there were hundreds of thousands of them on the road, but that
> > > 'might' be just a bit optimistic about future sales.  ;-)
> >
> > Once there's a thousand tango's there will also be a GM Mambo and a Ford
> ChaCha
> > etc.
>
> I seriously doubt there will ever be a thousand Tango's on the road.
>
> It's hard enough to get consumers into 'regular' economy cars because of the
> perceived safety issues.  This is why truck sales now outnumber car sales,
> people think trucks are safer because they are bigger.
>
> No matter how safe they make the Tango people are going to see how tiny it
> is and most will be convinced that it isn't safe because of it's size.
>
> FWIW There are now several hundred Sparrows on the road, I don't see anybody
> else copying 'that' idea yet.

Well I think that if you market an ugly car with kick ass performance you'll
get my dollar.  If you market an ugly car with low performance I'll say that's
nice, it's good for the planet but I've got to have more pay-off than just that
to get me out of a 'cool', 'fast' petro-guzzler.

Don't get me wrong, I have a huge respect for Mike Corbin's project, it's just
not my taste.  Your mileage SHOULD vary ;-).  And hopefully the Sparrow's
success will grow and be emulated too.


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Glenn Wittrock

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