Recently test drove one of these things. Doesn't ride as bad as the click baiters and ad cucks rail about and I liked it in general. I'm seeing quite a few 2017's sitting on lots new, a few more with very low mileage (sub 10k) used. Are people scared because of the head gaskets, wrong time of year to sell one, or is there something else I'm missing here?
Why so many sitting around?
William Young
Ayden Cook
They're ugly
Levi Torres
markups
Ryder Cruz
this
3 door gti is the only decent looking hatch and even that looks like a toddler's shoe
Zachary Smith
Pigfat, fwd, plagued with issues and costs as much as a V8 Mustang. Gee I wonder why they don't sell.
Elijah Bailey
Was thinking that too but that's all dead now.
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Meh, to each their own but I'm not sure I'd call them ugly. Civic SI hatch looks better to me but the type r is a little much styling wise.
Noah Reyes
i think it looks great
it's an amazing car. but it's because the type of people who are into hot hatches are the type of people who don't blow $40k+ on a new car.
Benjamin Bailey
Aside from the HG what do you mean? Performance wise, yea the Mustang is the winner but that's not the only making me want it and thinking I'm only the faggot wanting this thing is making me rethink about getting one.
Aiden Walker
The rear diff is a piece of shit and overheat if used hard. The HG issue is pretty serious but to be expected when you squeeze that much power out of a 4banger.
Jeremiah Perez
It's too performace minded and boy racer. Most people that are in a financial state to buy and afford to insure one aren't going to want to put up with it. Harsh ride, immature looks, and 42k USD msrp.
a golf r is a little less capable, but is a shot of novacaine compared to the rs and the r sells better because of it. It's more "grown up." People are cowards and don't want to justify their passions to other people and a golf r is bland enough to be accepted by more people. If ford wanted to sell outrageous, semi tamed track stars to people who just want to have fun, they should have built something cheaper. Then it would be more directly competing with Type Rs and WRXs, and GTIs. Instead it decided to take a swing at a 330i and turned up chump.
That's the reason why most mass market companies don't offer "fun," driving focused cars. Anyone can sell a fast car by throwing some leather and ritzy tech on a fast motor. Making something cheap, fast, and reliable enough to daily leaves very little profit and a large liability if your car isn't popular.
The only reason companies make these cars is because they see some room for a halo to boost sales or they've got something to prove. [And by halo, I mean a real halo that moves lower end product, not some not some unreachable fuck show with no relation to the rest of the brand. I'm kind of diverging from the main point here, but I hate it when people say something like a nsx sells cars. Nobody bought a car because of the nsx exists, but the Type R will fucking whip Civic SIs right out the showroom all day long.]
tl;dr
it's a fucking 42 thousand dollar focus. pic unrelated.