[Turk]

Interesting read to hear what average Joe thinks are the reasons why Ford will build 2500 or even 4500 and why do they bother advertising on Superbowl etc.

Halo car. Attention getter. Helps the brand. Publicity.
They can't eve begin to recover their R&D costs even if they built and sold 13,500 much less the production costs.

How much money do you think Chevrolet makes from the sale of SSR or even the Corvette?

The new C6 will be subsidized by the Corporation after the buyer has paid a good chunk of money to the dealer.

You can't do the R&D , meet all the Federal and State regulations, be eniromentally safe get good gas milage, survive the 5-10-30 MPH crash tests, develop all the parts and pieces that goes ONLY into that platform and then sell only 25,000 each year and have it be money maker.

In the early 90's I was told by some folks in the know that the cost of a Corvette to GM was in the vicinity of $92,000.
That was in the 90's.

I bet that number is over $150,000 for the new C6 Corvette now.

If you don' believe me look at how much you have wrapped up in your own cars, and that is with you doing the work and no compliances at all and no radio, no ABS, no AC etc.

The reason they have no incentive to make a lot more is because they couldn't make enough and sell enough to make it a profitable model. This ain't no Mustang.

When GM and Ford think numbers they are thinking 50,000 100,000.
We did away with the Camaro while it was selling in numbers bigger than all these.

Marketing! Pride! Bragging rights!!

TURK