There are successful 4-door sport sedans - BMW, Infinity, and Mercedes to mention only a few, all have superfast, road hugging, good on gas sports sedans.

What we need to do is get our decision makers out of their box of paradigms!!! There are a great number of SWEET looking cars being prototyped, but the decision makers are choosing the boring plain janes -- and it is not cost... Well... Initial Tooling costs may be higher to create the stamping dies, but we are talking pennies in the end process. I know, for 21-years I was a Corporate Director of Operations/Quality for aTier 1 Supplier that made Hot/Warm/Cold Forging and both Heavy & Light Stamping Dies -- including Class A &finishes less than 2 microns.

What I want to know is werethey are getting their focus groups - the senior citizens lobby, orboringville USA. Are you the most conservative, boring, have no life geek in the world?Great... Follow me, we have some designs for you to look over. Ok Mister & Misses Geek... Which of these designs would you like to see be built?"Well... That one looks really, reallycool, but itwouldn't be very practical... I don't think...So I say.. I would go with that boring one there."

Now here is a FREE (potential Billion dollar idea)... With Forums like this, YouTube, TZM, and the such.. Creating a marketing research company that performs focus group research for OEMs almost instaneously and with a much wider and in-depth feedback. The data thencould be quickly narrowed by zip code, and birth year to segment the largest market for the product or service in question. Would you not LOVE to voice your opinion on what the next Impala might look like, what features you would love it to have, and what colors (both interior and exterior), sound system, etc. So Ok you computer geeks, get cranking and make some money... may be you can remember the guy who feed you the idea... maybe?