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Originally Posted by Goat Boy
Hmmm, sorry to disagree but there is a huge range of sedans available and a good number are still sold. The idea of SUV racing is just yuck. Although you could include wagons in the mix so you get your Audi RS6's and the like.
Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Volswagen, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Alfa Romeo, Mazda, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Kia, Peugeot, Renault, Volvo, Skoda, Seat, Suzuki - all sell a range of 4 door saloon cars. Plenty of scope for variety and entertainment.
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Look forward 5 to 8 years and what do you see happening in the market place? very few sedans and fewer sedans with ICE drive lines is what my crystal ball tells me. Why would any manufacturer want their car in a silhouette series that is irrelevant to their main markets in other countries. Oz is a miniscule market for manufacturers who no longer have manufacturing facilities here so a series based around that concept no longer works. All that without even considering the driveline issues more entries would raise, they can't handle 2 different motors so any additional entries would be impossible and given the move away from ICE most probably irrelevant anyway.
Consider your list and tell us why any of those manufacturers would want to enter, at least three of them are either on the verge of exiting the Oz market, most of them sell only miniscule amounts here, most sedans from that list are entirely unsuitable unless we return to class racing which would be an excellent idea IMHO etc etc.
Manufacturers that had a presence in Oz motor sport because they had either manufacturing or CKD operations here is quite long for a country our size.
Renault
Nissan
Holden
Ford
Toyota
Mitsubishi
British Leyland
Volkswagen
Volvo??
The sad fact is they have all left and apart from a select few have very little presence here.
So, tell me why any of those minor brands would want their product *******ised into a circuit car for a market they have very little interest in when their marketing plans are NOW moving away from ICE in the foreseeable future. It simply does not make sense with any logical consideration longer than five seconds.
ALERT ALERT! The basis of the series no longer exists so why continue to flog it to the fans when their interest as it was has been removed and will continue in a downward spiral because the cars either can't be bought here or are only in a specialist end of the market for a select few. How many fans own a Mustang, I would venture not many judging by the sales figures.
I could rant on but this will do for now and thanks for taking the time to read it.