Originally Posted by tandempower

That's what they do. They view themselves as 'realists,' but really what they are is 'status quo-ists.' They just ridicule anything relative to the established norm of passenger cars. They do it because they want the economy to be a single integrated system controlled from the top-down. So any time some new idea gets proposed or implemented by anyone except a corporate market leader, they just go on about how it will be dead soon. They are basically right considering how many new vehicle concepts were created and promoted throughout the last decade or so. These ideas are created to lure investors, who are nursed along for a while before the company disappears from the radar.