Nobody will buy this car?

[OldCoupeGRGuy1]

Well, I heard this so many times when watching YT videos. Even from some who I enjoy watching and I thought they were just parotting others.
While having a coffee in a small country town in the Yorkshire dales a blue one drove past so I went and had a look - after I had finished my coffee. Two days later I ordered one.
Tuesday I picked up mine and the salesman told me mine was the 3rd in two weeks that they handed over - white, blue and grey - all retired people - oldest was a late 70s lady who has been a petrol head all her life.
Two days later - yesterday I went up into the Yorkshire dales near Hawes and the owner of the tea rooms came out to look at mine and said he picks up his blue one tomorrow.
Thats 5 of them I know of in a small area of Yorkshire.
UK is getting 400 this year so hopefully they will sell and the Prelude has a secure future ahead and who knows a Prelude "S" with possibly 250 hp may show up in a few years if the sales show the haters wrong.

 

[faithboy22]

Youth is wasted on the Young (Oscar Wilde)

Younger customers are put off by the perceived lack of performance, and they don't yet have much disposable income; furthermore, if they did have that kind of money available, this group would likely lean towards a more powerful used car. In short: They aren't quite ready or mature enough for the Prelude yet.

 

[pillred44]

Youth is wasted on the Young (Oscar Wilde)

Younger customers are put off by the perceived lack of performance, and they don't yet have much disposable income; furthermore, if they did have that kind of money available, this group would likely lean towards a more powerful used car. In short: They aren't quite ready or mature enough for the Prelude yet.

That's a nice, some would say diplomatic way of saying only us oldies are buying it, lol.

 

[pillred44]

Youth is wasted on the Young (Oscar Wilde)

Younger customers are put off by the perceived lack of performance, and they don't yet have much disposable income; furthermore, if they did have that kind of money available, this group would likely lean towards a more powerful used car. In short: They aren't quite ready or mature enough for the Prelude yet.

Well, I heard this so many times when watching YT videos. Even from some who I enjoy watching and I thought they were just parotting others.
While having a coffee in a small country town in the Yorkshire dales a blue one drove past so I went and had a look - after I had finished my coffee. Two days later I ordered one.
Tuesday I picked up mine and the salesman told me mine was the 3rd in two weeks that they handed over - white, blue and grey - all retired people - oldest was a late 70s lady who has been a petrol head all her life.
Two days later - yesterday I went up into the Yorkshire dales near Hawes and the owner of the tea rooms came out to look at mine and said he picks up his blue one tomorrow.
Thats 5 of them I know of in a small area of Yorkshire.
UK is getting 400 this year so hopefully they will sell and the Prelude has a secure future ahead and who knows a Prelude "S" with possibly 250 hp may show up in a few years if the sales show the haters wrong.

I picked mine up on Tuesday as well, it certainly does seem a car which appeals to an older demographic, (me), which in some ways does surprise me, I said somewhere else I'm pretty sure the car would have appealed to the younger me too as well, it's probably the fact it costs north of 40 grand that means it will mostly be older people with a few bob as my nan used to say that will be able to buy it.