Should Ford Cobraize the Thunderbird?

[southernfriedcj]

Originally posted by Turk


Southerfriedhomebuilder,

I take it there is no such thing as "supply and demand" in your line of work.

Turk, I understand "supply and demand"(painfully, at times), but I don't like it when I see price gouging.

I didn't say it doesn't hurt your relationship with your dealer, I said it wouldn't hurt the car. [/quote]

And I agreed.

Some of us may have bought the car at $25,000. That is true.Not enough of us would have, to make it a viable car in the market. They would have sold a few more and instead of pulling the plug on it now , they would have gotten another 2 or three months of production.

Let's face it....It got a lot of hopes up, "retro" and that kind of talk, and then it let us down. It was a flop.
It is NOT a nice car. It is butt ugly.
End of the story.

It lacked performance, it also lacked the "retro". Couple of taillights do not make a retro. [/quote]
It's a shame the car didn't realize it's potential. It sounded like a great idea.


I understand a car can be priced too high, but the market is full of vehicles and motocycles that are priced high. As long as the demand is there, the dealers are able to move them of their lots at full sticker and then some.[/quote]
It blows me away what some folks will pay to be "the first one on their block". Of course we have paid a considerable sum for cars that don't even have a radio.

As a GM employee, I knows what I talk about when it comes to ugly, and also I live with inability to sell cars not on demand by lowering the price. When folks don't want a certain car for it's looks (primarily) no amount of price concessions, rebates, seem to make a significant difference.[/quote]
Try selling a house that nobody likes. We have a few that we may auction off. They are priced at 20k under appraisal, and they still don't sell. We have actually had buyers getting second mortgages at closing because they are stepping into so much equity.

Whereas some makes and models have been very succesful in the market place, in spite of the price, and free of discounting. Why? because we are all lined up to buy them!.[/quote]

Like the H2? Everybody around here with a little jingle has one of those things. Isn't it the emperors new Tahoe?

Turk, I have always thought that the General should reintroduce the '69 Camaro. Make the car look like the original in and out, and use all modern drivetrain. Make mine a Z11 and I'll grow a mullet and pay you 40k for the car. (like a great man once said: "consider the source")