lol... yeah. I understand the numbers game they're playing, but like Milo said, I think there's room for more of them to capture the part of the new car buying market that does want a manual.
One thing we've always faced, is that manual is more desired by young males buying used cars, than by the older buyers buying new cars. That has always been the case, and especially with cars like the aforementioned Corvette.
I think the WRX is an engineering marvel. I wouldn't buy one for myself, I just don't dig the whole Subaru image and ethos, but I can totally understand why those cars have such a huge fanbase.
Along the same lines is the Mitsubishi Evo, which a friend tried to convince me to buy many years ago. I see the Evo and WRX more as "kids cars", something that must be very appealing to young guys, who have less nostalgic attachment to big-displacement American V8's.
