Since Porsche was brought up, let's look at some of the diehard Porsche fans. They believe that everything Porsche makes is watered down crap. In their mind, Porsche should only make primitive, air cooled, rwd, rear engine, sportscars that weight less than 2800 lbs with an interior that can hardly be called one.
They cringe when Porsche made a water cooled 996 Turbo, or introduced the automatic transmission, or the topless Boxster, or gasp! the Caynne SUV. They claim there're no real Porsches anymore, and that Porsche will self destruct. And guess what, by around 2008, that SUV (which is about as far away from a 993 air cooled coupe as a Compass is from a CJ) had made Porsche one of the biggest automakers in Europe, if not the world.
Every heard of Pacific trucks? They were a hardcore logging truck manufacturer that stuck to their roots, like some Jeep lovers dream of Jeep doing. There's a reason you don't hear about Pacifics any more...
Times change. Those who don't change with it, fail. When logging went from old growth to smaller, hwy truck friendly second growth trees, people stopped buying those huge Pacifics, and used run of the mill, watered down Kenworths and Petes.
Ask yourself, how many buyers today, even from the Wrangler crowd, even knows what articulation means? Then ask yourself, how many buyers know what ride quality or quietness means.
They cringe when Porsche made a water cooled 996 Turbo, or introduced the automatic transmission, or the topless Boxster, or gasp! the Caynne SUV. They claim there're no real Porsches anymore, and that Porsche will self destruct. And guess what, by around 2008, that SUV (which is about as far away from a 993 air cooled coupe as a Compass is from a CJ) had made Porsche one of the biggest automakers in Europe, if not the world.
Every heard of Pacific trucks? They were a hardcore logging truck manufacturer that stuck to their roots, like some Jeep lovers dream of Jeep doing. There's a reason you don't hear about Pacifics any more...
Times change. Those who don't change with it, fail. When logging went from old growth to smaller, hwy truck friendly second growth trees, people stopped buying those huge Pacifics, and used run of the mill, watered down Kenworths and Petes.
Ask yourself, how many buyers today, even from the Wrangler crowd, even knows what articulation means? Then ask yourself, how many buyers know what ride quality or quietness means.
