View Single Post
Old 9 Jun 2017, 12:58 (Ref:3739682)   #43
deggis
Veteran
 
deggis's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Finland
Posts: 6,206
deggis is going for a new world record!deggis is going for a new world record!deggis is going for a new world record!deggis is going for a new world record!deggis is going for a new world record!deggis is going for a new world record!deggis is going for a new world record!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Akrapovic View Post
As I said, I think it's unwise going to the middle east and easy money and I don't see it having a long term place on the calendar. It might be a big market, but is it really a big market for Toyota? Or Peugeot? Porsche fair enough, even Audi. But I can't see the general wealthy population driving Peugeots to the circuit.
Probably not an important market for normal passenger cars (maybe pickup trucks?), but certainly for sports and luxury cars:

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uplo...yBreakdown.jpg

http://flatsixes.com/wp-content/uplo...sales-2015.jpg (lumped together with Asia (minus China) and Africa, but I would expect a similar split to Ferrari)
deggis is offline  
Quote