Who is making wild assumptions here? Do you need to re-read this little thread here to figure out just where the assumptions were made, or do I have to spell it out for you? I will give you a hint before you go off on your little investigative journey trying to find the assumptions: they did not come from me.
The fact of the matter is that people evaluate the vehicles they want to buy for a number of different reasons, and you would be incredibly narrow minded (and stupid) to suggest that your priorities are somehow more relevant or better than someone else's.
You can read this little MS3 forum and find out that people have bought the MS3 because it's fast and gets good fuel economy, because they have a family and find the hatchback design very livable for day to day use with a baby, because they wanted a fast car, because they liked the interior, because they felt the vehicle was a good deal, etc etc etc. Every single person that buys a car has a different story behind why they finally decided on the one they now own. For some of those people, fuel economy is a driving force, even if they are looking for a car that can do a 14 second 1/4 mile. You guys need to stop being mental by suggesting that just because the car is fast the ammount you spend on fuel doesn't matter. That is such a simple-minded perspective, and I find in monumentally juvenile to have to read some lukewarm pudding-for-brains suggest that performance is the only metric that matters. You'd all be driving Cobalt SS Turbocharged or 2004 SRT-4s if that was the case.
You sure might not be suggesting that performance is the only metric that matters, but that other guy certainly was, which is why I called him on it. This is all easily picked up with a basic grade 6 level of reading comprehension, guy.
