Why Toyota, Honda, And Nissan Continue To Bet On Sports Cars

[sugarwood]

Excellent video on CNBC's youtube channel, which continues to have interesting coverage on the auto market. This one is about the resurgence of Japanese automakers and their sports cars. Basically, they went from bean counting in the late 90s to going full retro in the past couple of years.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I hate narrated videos using stock footage. Lazy and dull. Would have been more interesting to compare them head to head and provide feedback, old vs new. This is a video anyone could make on their computer.

While I’m glad that the Japanese still build sports cars, only the Miata is authentic to its legacy. The NSX went from lightweight and lithe to passionless computer with wheels, the 300ZX went from a super car to a second rate sports car, the GTR is a monster but lacks passion and has fallen behind the competition, the RX7 is long dead, and the Supra went from a legend to a rebadged BMW. The 1990s Japanese super cars were some of the best cars on the planet, full stop. Can you say that about any of them now?

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

This is a video anyone could make on their computer.

All videos are made on someone's computer.
Looking forward to seeing your contribution.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Sorry but that’s not much better than the hundreds of bot narrated videos on YouTube. Stock video with some dude narrating. At least drive the cars or something.