The long version

Buyers here aren't nostalgic for a car that just left; they went shopping specifically because the replacement is a turbo four with an electric motor bolted on, and a hand-built engine in a compact sedan sounds like the last of something worth having. It shows in how the cars get used — high miles, real winters, genuine commuting, because the appeal is an everyday-usable V8 rather than a trailer queen. Wagon buyers are the purest version of this instinct: same engine, more room, even less pretense about what the car is for.