I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Since the absence of the Camaro, RWD's have exploded into the market, now just bringing it back won't be enough...
You have the Magnum/Charger to deal with...and these are selling pretty good, I see more and more of them on the roads every day.(Magnum's)
You also have the "HEMI" phenomenom...people are buying vehicles with HEMI's, b/c they can get one in it.
They need to get real serious about marketing and advertising, I see far more import commercials than domestic.
They're just gonna have to bring the whole package to the table or call it a night.
:Trendy engine "name" not RPO.(as Vortech, HEMI etc..)marketing..
:a 2, 4 door offering available as a wagon.(Chevelle/Nomad???)
:the Pony car worth waiting for...b/c we r-e-a-l-l-y waited.
:Style...and a big chrome bar isn't it...
I think people would like to see some of the monochromatic paint jobs broken up a little by some chrome/different colored accents. Who wants to spend $25k on a toy looking car??
Look to the past for "cues" on :colors(A BIG ONE), styling, cool features etc..
Today's colors, while better than a few years ago, leave much to be desired. We're all SICK of Forest-Green and Champagne/silver....They seem generic to ALLLLL cars on the Planet, just as it was in the days before the "Tucker"...That's one thing I loved about the IROC's when they came out, brilliant new colors that made you say WOWWW!
It's time to get "outside the box" in colors and style, big chances sometimes pay off BIG!...Real cars, not full scale toys....
You have the Magnum/Charger to deal with...and these are selling pretty good, I see more and more of them on the roads every day.(Magnum's)
You also have the "HEMI" phenomenom...people are buying vehicles with HEMI's, b/c they can get one in it.
They need to get real serious about marketing and advertising, I see far more import commercials than domestic.
They're just gonna have to bring the whole package to the table or call it a night.
:Trendy engine "name" not RPO.(as Vortech, HEMI etc..)marketing..
:a 2, 4 door offering available as a wagon.(Chevelle/Nomad???)
:the Pony car worth waiting for...b/c we r-e-a-l-l-y waited.
:Style...and a big chrome bar isn't it...
I think people would like to see some of the monochromatic paint jobs broken up a little by some chrome/different colored accents. Who wants to spend $25k on a toy looking car??
Look to the past for "cues" on :colors(A BIG ONE), styling, cool features etc..
Today's colors, while better than a few years ago, leave much to be desired. We're all SICK of Forest-Green and Champagne/silver....They seem generic to ALLLLL cars on the Planet, just as it was in the days before the "Tucker"...That's one thing I loved about the IROC's when they came out, brilliant new colors that made you say WOWWW!
It's time to get "outside the box" in colors and style, big chances sometimes pay off BIG!...Real cars, not full scale toys....
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by bossco
GM isn't going to put a big dent in mustang sales and thats because only mustang people are buying mustangs. GM isn't spotting Ford anything. the 200k market was there already.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by ckt101
Don't get me wrong here, I am really happy to hear that a new Camaro seems to be coming soon, and I appreciate the work done by the people at GM who believe in Camaro. However, all of this recent 'good news' is causing me to feel alot of anger towards GM too. None of this had to happen. We didn't have to be without our car for this long period of time, Ford should never have been given this opportunity to stick it in our faces, GM should never have stupidly decided that nobody wants cars like this.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a ye
Originally Posted by WERM
Fall announcement! That must mean they are expecting to complete phase I of the RWD coupe feasibility study and begin phase II (thinking about it really hard).
LMAO, but you are right.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by Z28Wilson
Read that again folks. Then ponder the words. A fall announcement on the return of rear wheel drive Corvette companions.
To the doubters (BigBlueCruiser and others)....the defense rests.
NAIAS in January is gonna be some kinda show.
To the doubters (BigBlueCruiser and others)....the defense rests.
NAIAS in January is gonna be some kinda show.
You're setting up a lot of milestones for GM to miss there.
Giving me way too much ammo.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a ye
Originally Posted by Z28Wilson
Read that again folks. Then ponder the words. A fall announcement on the return of rear wheel drive Corvette companions.
To the doubters (BigBlueCruiser and others)....the defense rests.
NAIAS in January is gonna be some kinda show.
To the doubters (BigBlueCruiser and others)....the defense rests.
NAIAS in January is gonna be some kinda show.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by BigBlueCruiser
You're setting up a lot of milestones for GM to miss there.
Giving me way too much ammo.
Giving me way too much ammo.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by Bob Cosby
I don't know for sure, but I'm kind of doubting that the ~100k people that have bought a 2005 Mustang this year are all "Mustang people." Think maybe there might be one or two of those "conquest sales" that we here about on this Forum in there some where?
Thats why I say the market for the mustang was already there and on the surface I'd say there are basically 2 types of people, mustang people and camaro people and niether really wants to do something with the other (well except talk smack and race that is or play nice and social while thinking about the former) even if its the only game in town.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by Z28Wilson
Just because they are ready to announce the return of Car 'X' in the fall doesn't mean they haven't been working on Car 'X' for quite some time now...
perhaps they have just been putting it together without anything being shown.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by bossco
There might be a couple, but I'd say they are in the extreme minority. The only years that mustang sales had fallen below 100k was in 91 and 92 IIRC?? and I think the average was about 132k (eyeball math from 64 to present) a year. Anywhosit the introduction of the 79 model pushed 300k out the door, and the Fox 4 even sold over 200k at one point.
Thats why I say the market for the mustang was already there and on the surface I'd say there are basically 2 types of people, mustang people and camaro people and niether really wants to do something with the other (well except talk smack and race that is or play nice and social while thinking about the former) even if its the only game in town.
Thats why I say the market for the mustang was already there and on the surface I'd say there are basically 2 types of people, mustang people and camaro people and niether really wants to do something with the other (well except talk smack and race that is or play nice and social while thinking about the former) even if its the only game in town.
BTW....this Mustang person has owned 3 F-bodies and a Vette.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by NewbieWar
they already have the design for the previous F-Body... supposidly the new F-body will follow w/ the colorado rear end...
Anyway, luckily that proposal is dead.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a ye
Originally Posted by Bob Cosby
BTW....this Mustang person has owned 3 F-bodies and a Vette.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
Originally Posted by Z284ever
Funny how info gets around...how'd you hear that?
Anyway, luckily that proposal is dead.
Anyway, luckily that proposal is dead.
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Re: I wake up every day knowing that I am spotting Ford 150,000 to 200,000 units a year.
this mustang person has owned two f-bodies (72 & 69) and they were fun cars, but even if GM had an 06, 07, etc. I wouldn't buy one new.
Then again if I may ask, would any of the former f-body and current mustang onwers switch to the DCX Challenger if it was brought to market and would soundly trounce the mustang in price and performance, Depsite lacking that intangible something that mustang seems to possess?
Then again if I may ask, would any of the former f-body and current mustang onwers switch to the DCX Challenger if it was brought to market and would soundly trounce the mustang in price and performance, Depsite lacking that intangible something that mustang seems to possess?