Shelby CSX price increase!

[ACademic]

Hey, the government announced today that they are going to print another $600 billion. So now the $10K increase is completely justified.

[Igofastr]

Agree about the FF5 rearends, look pretty good nowadays.

As for the "free market"...yes it is, which is why they'll lose market share with the price hike.

Buy a Kirkham, instead.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Igofastr

As for the "free market"...yes it is, which is why they'll lose market share with the price hike.

Buy a Kirkham, instead.

Market share is one way to go. As said, maybe SAI wants to raise the brand's exclusivity, maybe they see a market share drop, but an increase in profit margin may more than offset the loss of market share.

Some consumers vote with their pocketbook and make a bang-for-the-buck value-based decision, others don't care one way or another and they pay the piper for the "geniune" article.

Maybe they're raising the price becaase they're just plain running out of CSX numbers in the four figures and don't want to make a CSX 10,000.

[Excaliber]

Well a smaller market share, less volume and higher prices has worked out well for some companies. Ferrari comes to mind, Porsche, Bugatti, many others.

The big difference is, those other companies don't face stiff competition from "replica manufacturers". Had Shelby won the recent FFR lawsuit as it concerns the trade mark issues, a $10K increase would the tip of the ice berg!

While the opinion of the court placed the Shelby's as virtually identical to a replica, reality is, many will not see it that way. And that's OK, it is, after all is said and done, a genuine Shelby product. Brand names carry weight in the free market.

Allan A. is not out of line, less buyers, more exclusivity for the marque. Actually, I concur, there are to many replicas out there already. Raise the price's across the board, I got mine!

[Dominik]

Anthony is right, the CSX chassis takes forever to weld and then bend the birdcage to support the body, and the doors...
Maybe not $10.000, but you can't compare the round tube chassis and rectangular. Even if only for looks! (Wanted to say aesthetics, but didn't know how to spell)

[stephen_becker]

Bump!

10 days to go to save $ 10,000.00

:-)

[Keithc8]

Well Stephen maybe some of us should buy all the cars you have in stock before the price increase and then we can work together to sell them to customers down the road. looks like this would be the thing to do because if they are left at your place they will have to be sold for 10,000.00 more if I understand this right. So I can buy all that you have in stock and in ten days every dealer has to sell the new cars he gets plus any left on his show room for 10,000.00 more. I just do not see these other dealers doing that with cars that they got cheaper if they are trying to move cars and make deals.
I assume that you have already paid for the cars setting there and that if you get any more they will cost you more, or is this just a retail price increase and new cars will cost you the same. Just trying to take all of this in and how it will work. Because if the cars all go up 10,000.00 I could buy any that are out there now and resale them for 5000.00 more down the road and still be below what the dealer can sell them for. This does not make since to me. Maybe we buy them and build them complete and sell them, that might work. Let me know how this can be done.

Thanks, Keith

[ACademic]

I was thinking along the same lines as Keith. The only caveat is that flipping a CSX (in this lumbering economy, and especially ensuring you have the most popular color/stripe combo) is easier said than done. An easy $5K if you select the right combo and can market it aggressively. For builders like Keith, should be even easier.

[madmaxx]

I wish they would all go up by $20K, Kirkham, Shelby, SPF, Backdraft, Factory Five, I imagine the majority of particpants on this forum is owners. I doubt you will all have your cobras until you die, soooooooo, if they all increased in price your used one would also increase in price!!!!!! Let not shoot ourselves guys, I applaud Shelby and hope SPF and the others will join in, they deserve a price increase!!!!!

[stephen_becker]

I do not have any CSX 6000 cars in stock - Ordering a car at the $ 49,995.00 MSRP is good until 12/01

[rodneym]

Any dealers out there not interested in renewing their Shelby dealership status who might sell at the the old price once Dec 1st hits?

[stephen_becker]

Seven days left!!

Save $ 10,000.00

SGB

[SP01715]

Hmmm, I have been shoping for a new 5th wheel and prices are down. Good luck with the price increase...

[stephen_becker]

THREE days left!!

Save $ 10,000.00 on genuine Carroll Shelby built CSX 6000 427 S/C Cobras

www.goplanetcobra.com

SGB

[somedayaurora]

Originally Posted by stephen_becker

THREE days left!!

Save $ 10,000.00 on genuine Carroll Shelby built CSX 6000 427 S/C Cobras

www.goplanetcobra.com

SGB

Gotta say I hate your website . How bout some inventory and info I can't get everywhere else ? On a different note, another great article in the new Shelby mag , Kudos .
SDR

[stephen_becker]

Originally Posted by somedayaurora

Gotta say I hate your website . How bout some inventory and info I can't get everywhere else ? On a different note, another great article in the new Shelby mag , Kudos .
SDR

We are still working out the website issues and appreciate your comments

[Excaliber]

....genuine Carroll Shelby built CSX

Well at least that's an honest description, for a Shelby built REPLICA.

[Excaliber]

Look, I hate to be negative, I love all things Shelby, but here's the problem.

From the web site in the News section:

Planet Cobra to Sell Genuine 427 Shelby Cobra at 3rd Annual Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction
September/2010PLANET COBRA TO SELL GENUINE 427 SHELBY COBRA AT 3RD ANNUAL BARRETT-JACKSON LAS VEGAS AUCTION

The car being sold is CSX6060, a modern Shelby replica. Words like "genuine", "continuation", "real Shelby" are embarrasing. The headline in this case gives one the feeling that it's a genuine real Shelby Cobra from the 60's, a CSX3000 series car. Of course it is not. I just find it uncomfortable to be associated with a group, replica Cobra owners, (including of course, Shelby American) associated with this kind of misleading and confusing terminology. I would feel far more comfortable with an accurate, real, genuine, description of the cars Shelby sell's today.

[dcdoug]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

Look, I hate to be negative, I love all things Shelby, but here's the problem.

From the web site in the News section:
Words like "genuine", "continuation", "real Shelby" are embarrasing.

I don't know about that. It's marketing and is certainly true, although obviously an uninformed buyer/bidder could interpret it to mean an original car. Seems to me that Shelby and Shelby's dealers are well within their rights to market their cars as "real shelbys" - it is in fact called a "continuation series".

I certainly don't want another thread on real vs original vs replica, etc, but this language doesn't seem out of line to me. Anyway, my $.02.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by dcdoug

I certainly don't want another thread on real vs original vs replica, etc, but this language doesn't seem out of line to me. Anyway, my $.02.

Oh come on. Yes you do. I know you do. How else will we get Evan out of hiding? He certainly didn't take the bait when the judge ruled against Shelby in the case against FFR.

As for the price increase, it's America and there's only a couple days left.