SVTdriver said:I don't think there is a market for 100,000. 500hp. $48k. cars. Ford would lose money on building that many of them.
I agree, Ford will have trouble selling 25,000 GT-500s.
SVTdriver said:I don't think there is a market for 100,000. 500hp. $48k. cars. Ford would lose money on building that many of them.
shooterm1 said:Brother, you could not have picked a better example!!
Ford is F-ing up BIGTIME with this car and they wont even know it for years to come .....
(its spelled - G R E E D )
351CJ said:Actually I agree, Ford is screwing up big time.
In FoMoCo's world, the dealers are their customers, we, the people who actually buy and driver the cars, are not.
Ford speaks with forked tounge. On one hand they say that they don't want dealers to add AMVs to GT-500s (or other vehicles in short supply ). On the other hand, behind the scenes, Ford is using limited production vehicles and is messing with allocation of popular models to help the dealers charge AMVs.
SVTdriver said:Yes Ford is screwing up big time.
Ignorant!
shooterm1 said:thanks for your succinct assessment of my posting on this subject /// direct with no ambiguity
but honestly, wouldn't FORD, its stockholders and some of the dealers be better off if they made more than the paltry / meager number that they have proposed?
and isnt that REALLY the bottom line here?
RisingForce said:How is FORD greedy in this situation?
Why do people blame Ford for price gouging?
This is a simple matter of high demand on a limited
edition American Muscle .
Would you rather Ford make 100.000 Shelbys and sell them for $35000 so you could find it around every corner?
Be realistic. Ford is doing the right thing to make this very limited. They also have the right pricing for it,The only people causing this price war are the people dumb enough to pay $20.000 over sticker.
SVTdriver said:So are you now trying to say they should build 100,000 GT500's? I mean let's be realistic. The GT500 is no different from any year Cobra. It has always been limited production. With the exception that now any dealer can sell it. Not just SVT dealers. Which means there is more competition for the sales. And should actually be a reason not to charge AMV. Since there are considerably more dealerships in which to shop at.
351CJ said:Not I'm not suggesting that at all. As I've posted elsewhere, Ford will have trouble selling 25,000 GT-500s over it's production run (assuming it gots to 3 years).
In spite of the additional dealers selling the GT-500, the allocation system helps dealers to charge AMVs because their supply is limited. In one of Ford's own press releases on the GT-500 it said that the GT-500 will be exclusive just like the Shelbys from the 1960s and also talked about how customers may have to pay extra to get one because production is limited.
What I am suggesting is that Ford simply announce that it will not limit GT-500 production and will build GT-500s until all orders are met. Not limiting production will limit the dealer's ability to charge AMVs to only those customers who have to be the first to get one. It will stop this BS of dealers getting insane AMVs because production is limited.
SVTdriver said:Not limiting production means that it is not a more desirable car. Since anyone can just order it. Instead of (To quote Saleen) "Power in the hands of the few".
351CJ said:Not really true.
The market will limit production because only so many people will buy GT-500s.
Saying that "anyone can order it" verses saying "production will be limited" won't affect how many are produced as the market for $50,000 Mustangs is limited. All it would affect is the feeding frenzy when the GT-500 first comes out. ie. "I better buy one now because production is limited" vs. "I'll wait until AMVs dissappear".
As I said as much as Ford publicly says they don't want large AMVs, behind the scenes they are feeding the GT-500 hysteria.
SVTdriver said:No it's not and never has been the bottom line on SVT cars.
fastang#1 said:yea, but it looks like a honda..... nothing like the old GTO...