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When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?

BryceC
MeowingCows said:
Now that's entirely possible, I just view it as a separate conversation. The issue with this case remains that if people later on don't care about the supercar or exotic car experience anymore, then it doesn't matter if Ferrari and Porsche make an EV or not. They won't make one comparable in price and ideals to a Tesla, or a Mach E, etc. They don't target the same consumer base; they'll die on the vine either way. I can definitely see that reality happening in a generation or two.
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Honestly I think in my lifetime just the driving experience in general people will stop caring about.

If we get a fleet of Waymo’s in DSM that are pretty cheap and I don’t have to wait more than 5 minutes for one, I’d probably just sell my car.
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FinalFourCy
cykadelic2 said:
That offer is essentially on the table already but Sankey/ESPN and Petitti/Fox are making every attempt to ignore or not acknowledge it.
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Is it? I’m not aware of the M2 offering a bag to top P2. What offtake and investors are underwriting those offers? I’m hoping it could eventually be Paramount/redbird, and tech like Amazon, but it’s moot if the P2 first entice another 4-14 schools to join their cartel

There is legislation with the avenue to pooling all of P2 with others, along with a bunch of other things that are tangential at best.

of course they haven’t. The P2 didn’t make offers to Bowlsby, Kliavkoff, or Beebe for Big 12 or PAC schools.
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When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?

mramseyISU
MeowingCows said:
The distinguishing factor is that the typical sports car costs a hell of a lot less than a typical Ferrari performance vehicle. They compete for supercar buyers, not Tesla or Mini or Miata or Corvette or Hellcat or GT500 or Mach E buyers. Those guys aren't cross-shopping with Ferraris.

Again, this is why I'm just not seeing where the actual market for that vehicle is at this point in time, and possibly never. If they just have money sitting around to play with, then by all means, swing for an EV home run. It's just not what I expect from extremely-low-volume sales brands to do. Don't mistake it for being "anti-EV", that's not it.
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Buying a Ferrari is a little different animal than buying any other sports car though. It's like buying a Rolex or any of those other super high end watches. You go into it buying a used one and you have to build up a purchase history before they let you get one of the high end models. At a certain point they give you a call and give you the opportunity to buy the new hotness and if you decline you might not get another chance. Ferrari being Ferrari I could see them telling those customers that if they don't buy one of these monstrosities they don't get a chance to buy the next V12 monster.
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FinalFourCy
Kinch said:
I worked with the guy who was involved in the TV and radio rights. He showed me the substantial increase in distributions. It certainly didn’t feel like a go kart to Iowa State then. Now it looks so small, but back then it was big and began to finance improvements. How do you think we were able to afford Johnny Orr?
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and? That doesn’t mean because a conference existed when TV revenues were much, much lower, and when scheduling still archaic, current conferences as we know them, survive as we know them, if pooling and scheduling is by single national entity

Think about why the CFA died when conference took control of pooling and revenue mechanism. They can’t co-exist



You bring up Orr. We wouldn’t be able to hire him from Michigan now, and it’s because of revenue gradients determined in large part by tv valuations at conference level
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