Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
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Re: Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
Originally Posted by Darth Xed
You're kind of contradicting yourself a bit here, though...
Saying
"The strategy is great for a performance version of an existing car, ie: the Z06."
and
"At General Motors, the "Blue Devil" is not a all new vehicle made from the ground up. It's based on an existing Corvette.
One would think that this approach would bring the car to market quicker than what Ford and DaimlerChrysler could do starting from a clean sheet of paper, but it isn't."
... kind of the opposites of each other.
I do agree on the Cien though!
Saying
"The strategy is great for a performance version of an existing car, ie: the Z06."
and
"At General Motors, the "Blue Devil" is not a all new vehicle made from the ground up. It's based on an existing Corvette.
One would think that this approach would bring the car to market quicker than what Ford and DaimlerChrysler could do starting from a clean sheet of paper, but it isn't."
... kind of the opposites of each other.
I do agree on the Cien though!
What I'm trying to (badly) say is that it's taking GM longer to answer 2 totally new supercars with a version of an existing one than it took longer to make than what it took the other 2 quazi-American companies (both with supposedly with less resources than GM) to create their cars from scratch.
The contradiction is in that I said in another thread that performance versions of a car should be made after the initial car comes out. In this, the Z06 then the "BD" Corvette fit right into what I posted.
The problem (which created my conumdrum of an opinion) is that a version of the Corvette is also being used as a GM version of the Ford GT or DaimlerChrysler ME Four-Twelve.
I guess it all depends on if you see the "BD" Corvette as an ultimate Corvette, or a late and underwhelming competitor to the GT or ME Four-Twelve.
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Re: Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
Originally Posted by Darth Xed
You're kind of contradicting yourself a bit here, though...
Saying
"The strategy is great for a performance version of an existing car, ie: the Z06."
and
"At General Motors, the "Blue Devil" is not a all new vehicle made from the ground up. It's based on an existing Corvette.
One would think that this approach would bring the car to market quicker than what Ford and DaimlerChrysler could do starting from a clean sheet of paper, but it isn't."
... kind of the opposites of each other.
I do agree on the Cien though!
Saying
"The strategy is great for a performance version of an existing car, ie: the Z06."
and
"At General Motors, the "Blue Devil" is not a all new vehicle made from the ground up. It's based on an existing Corvette.
One would think that this approach would bring the car to market quicker than what Ford and DaimlerChrysler could do starting from a clean sheet of paper, but it isn't."
... kind of the opposites of each other.
I do agree on the Cien though!
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Re: Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
Originally Posted by PaperTarget
Yeah, it sounds contradictory unless you understand that he (like myself) think the BD would be advertised and sold as an exotic even if it's not really an exotic. Most exotics are one of a kind cars not based upon cheaper, mass produced vehicles (the Vette being considered a mass produced vehicle as compared to true exotics). IMO anyway.
Fair enough.... I would totally agree with this if we were talkign about Cien, but if Blue Devil is actually a variant of Corvette, then it is a different situation.
Maybe if the C6 would have been out for MY2004, everything would have been pushed up a year... that may have helped.
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Re: Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
Originally Posted by PaperTarget
Yeah, it sounds contradictory unless you understand that he (like myself) think the BD would be advertised and sold as an exotic even if it's not really an exotic. Most exotics are one of a kind cars not based upon cheaper, mass produced vehicles (the Vette being considered a mass produced vehicle as compared to true exotics). IMO anyway.
Yea! Like he said.
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Re: Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
Truthfully I'd rather see the Cadillac Sixteen. That is what is going to get the blood riled up in the hearts of men worth billions of dollars. Ultimate in luxury.
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Re: Looks like Chrysler will build the ME412
Originally Posted by Chuck!
Truthfully I'd rather see the Cadillac Sixteen. That is what is going to get the blood riled up in the hearts of men worth billions of dollars. Ultimate in luxury.
Hell I'd like to see BOTH the Cien and the Sixteen built.
Then it'd be...
GM to other carmakers: "HA HA we have TWO supercars!!
"
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