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Originally Posted by Chocaholic View Post
Short answer: no.

Luxury/sports cars are profit leaders for manufacturers. This applies to lots of products. Service is no different.
Toyota 3rd generation MR-2 most certainly did not get the engineering budget of their small pick up truck line.

No company is going to sink big bucks into a small production high profile loss leader unless it is a legacy product like the Corvette.

Corvette gets them into the dealership, they walk out with a Camaro. Therefore the Vette pulls it's own weight.
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