Pontiac G8 ST cancelled, is the Camaro next? (NO!)
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Why? You're just one person - one person wouldn't help determine whether a manufacturer keeps producing a vehicle or not. According to Wikipedia (if what is on there is correct), the last car/truck combo, the Subara Baja, sold only 30,000 over four and a half years (that's 6666.66 units per year). Assuming the same amount of buyers bought an ST each year, say 7000 (on the high side) and you add in El Camino buffs, GM fans, and people who want a RWD car/truck, you might have 10000 units sold per year. That doesn't seem to me (I could be wrong) to be a model that GM would stay with for more than a few years.
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Why? You're just one person - one person wouldn't help determine whether a manufacturer keeps producing a vehicle or not. According to Wikipedia (if what is on there is correct), the last car/truck combo, the Subara Baja, sold only 30,000 over four and a half years (that's 6666.66 units per year). Assuming the same amount of buyers bought an ST each year, say 7000 (on the high side) and you add in El Camino buffs, GM fans, and people who want a RWD car/truck, you might have 10000 units sold per year. That doesn't seem to me (I could be wrong) to be a model that GM would stay with for more than a few years.
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I think if they did it correctly for the niche vehicle it is, it could have been easily done since they are already building them in Australia as the Holden Ute. Aren't the G8s being built there and shipped here? So a little re-badging and minimal advertising, I don't see where it would have been a cost issue, just import a limited number.
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I guess you'd need to take a look at bottom line dollars. It'll cost something to bring the ST to Pontiac dealers. It'll cost something to market it. And it'll cost something to put cash on the hood of the 80% of them that wouldn't sell.
The ST's case, I'd expect, might have been rosier, if G8 sales were better.
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I guess you'd need to take a look at bottom line dollars. It'll cost something to bring the ST to Pontiac dealers. It'll cost something to market it. And it'll cost something to put cash on the hood of the 80% of them that wouldn't sell.
The ST's case, I'd expect, might have been rosier, if G8 sales were better.
The ST's case, I'd expect, might have been rosier, if G8 sales were better.
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How about producing less GXP's if the number of available LS3 engines will be a constraining factor in the number of SS Camaros tha can be produced? They have guaranteed sales for the LS3 Camaros with all the pre orders that were placed.
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I guess you'd need to take a look at bottom line dollars. It'll cost something to bring the ST to Pontiac dealers. It'll cost something to market it. And it'll cost something to put cash on the hood of the 80% of them that wouldn't sell.
The ST's case, I'd expect, might have been rosier, if G8 sales were better.
The ST's case, I'd expect, might have been rosier, if G8 sales were better.
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