Yeah...and WTF is a Beetle doing on the list? People get paid to do this?
Tim Cain (the guy who runs GoodCarBadCar) and I talk on a very regular basis. I'm interested to know his rationale for splitting it up this way. My guess is it comes down to time. He's tight out doing sales data for the first half of every month so this is probably a way to speed up the process a little bit.
Making poorly thought out lists to speed things up. Interesting.
Exactly. I would be dead in a second in my business.
You're picking one list out of dozens and throwing the guy under the bus for it?
From the page I linked to earlier:
"GCBC isn't here to break down segments, an impossible task for any group, but to display sales data for the sake of comparison. The more ways sales data can be displayed, the better. This explains why you'll see the Audi A5 here and with luxury cars, because readers have wanted it both ways. You can always find the sales results for EVERY vehicle and form your own competitive sets by using the All Vehicle Rankings posts. Clearly GoodCarBadCar is not suggesting that the cars in the two tables above are all direct competitors. Establishing categories among cars as unique as even the Audi TT and Porsche Boxster has never pleased a single reader, so cars have been lumped together so you can simply see how buyers looking for sports cars, roadsters, hot hatches, convertibles, GTs, and wanna-be sports cars spend their money. Greater categorization of cars would only lead to problems that automakers create by not isolating model-specific sales figures: we don't know how many M3s BMW has sold or how many Civics are Si models, for example. The numbers we do have are listed above."
