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Originally Posted by The_Blur
Capitalism, while brilliant in theory, fails in only one way: it assumes that all buyers are informed of all available options and educated on the advantages and disadvantages of each. Since buyers are generally too stupid to understand the value of a 100,000-mile warranty when compared to a 60,000-mile warranty when it comes to resale, buyers don't buy on warranty. Since buyers don't do the research to find out which engines and transmissions last longer, they buy the one that sounds better to them. Of course, they don't know what "better" means as far as performance or durability.
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The problem with this whole paragraph is clearly illustrated in the Camaro. The Camaro is a completely emotional purchase decision. If everyone was extremely educated on all of the options and purchased only on value and durability, then everyone would be in a 3800 engined Buick or a Subaru Outback Wagon. Subaru Outback's are basically are what I consider to be the most definitive jack-of-all-trades, master of none ever produced and you have to work extremely hard to kill a 3800 Buick.
Everyone on here who already has a Camaro would have gone against research because research you never buy a 1st year car. That is a cardinal rule of car buying.
I think consumers are plenty educated, I just don't think they all think like me (or like you). You think people who don't think like you when it comes to a car purchase have not educated themselves on the competition, whereas I think most people who buy new cars are reasonably educated but value different amenities or rank their information sources differently than you do.