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Originally Posted by rvoll
Let's be more precise... Those articles were written in 2016 and 2014 without knowledge of the significant drop-off in volume. If you read the 2016 article, it was stated that there would be a next generation 86. There is a next generation Toyota sports car -- it's called the Supra!!!! The statement was also made that the next generation would be predicated on good sales volume, something that hasn't occurred. That was the statement by the executive.
So if that is the best we have to go off of, then it only supports the contention based on things like the website, lack of improvements in the current 86 models, lack of developmental models, etc. If you were an auto exec would you ever say that a model would be discontinued before the official announcement? You'd always say that a new model is in development as long as it continues to sell...
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Sales numbers only mean something if we know how many they planned and built. If they planned and built 1,000 and sold 10 then that would be bad. If they sold all 1,000 that would be on plan and good. We have no clue how many they made for the 18MY so can not say if the sales numbers are good or bad even if lower than prior years. They never went into this project looking for Corolla numbers and this years sales my be exactly what they forecast and built.
The Supra is not the next gen 86 it is in a totally different ballpark and not planned for the same market.