In the performance space where models like the Porsche 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman live, shoppers are sending a message with their wallets: they want what they want, and what they want—overwhelmingly—is combustion power. The market keeps proving that technological winners and losers aren’t chosen by online sentiment or automaker investments, but by the people actually writing the cheques. The customer, not the automaker, decides what technologies survive.
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