I purchased an iPhone 3G because it was among the first phones to support fast internet connectivity and there was nothing like the App Store at the time. I'm not sure I could afford or would even want an iCar, but if it's successful, it paves the way for a revolution in the auto industry (bring on rooted ECUs with a marketplace of modules, and 3D printed replacement parts and after market upgrades!)
You're joking? The original iPhone was mocked for not having 3G because that was a pretty standard smartphone feature by 2007.
They clearly made up for it in a smart manner by offering the things the competition wasn't offering (ergonomics, responsive interface, etc) rather than trying to match them feature for feature. But I confess that as a smartphone user I was a bit baffled at how they expected to sell a smartphone that didn't have 3G, GPS, third party apps, MMS, copy/paste, multitasking, or even a front camera for video calls or streaming on wifi.
Granted, in retrospect all I did was show how little I understood about consumer markets and demands because to people that hadn't been using whatever fancy-pants HTC TyTn was out at the time, it was a huge jump up from their feature phones and wasn't as off-putting to the new user.
But yeah...lack of 3G was one of the things I just couldn't deal with after having it for the previous couple of years.