That is interesting info. Sounds like you have a cool job, you just seem to travel a ton.
The only thing I would disagree on is point 5. I think the show cars proved they were on a secret agenda somewhere, and while yes it could take years for them to change that agenda, it has been years, and if they had planned on introducing new models at the mid cycle refresh that is plenty of time to change things. I don't think they ever expected to introduce all the models up front, but I do expect they would introduce the 86 and give it some indeterminate amount of time and see what happened before they planned on introducing sub models. I understand we could be talking about 5 years or more here, and I understand it is more than simple sales figures that would go into that decision. It is also too early to say they ruled them out. I also think that when the president of a company says to do something people below him will jump through all sorts of hurdles to do it, since that is what happened with the 86 to begin with.
Of course they know what they are doing more than we do, I hope no one would be dumb enough to argue against that.
I could argue against point 4 as well. While bottom of the line muscle cars are not super performance cars, neither is the 86. Pretty sure every current base muscle car is more powerful than our car. To simply call them hairdresser cars is the same as every imbecile everywhere that says the 86 is under powered. For every person that could afford to buy a brand new top of the line muscle car, I am sure there were a few that just didn't think it was worth it for whatever reason.
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
There are exceptions. Even with the cars you mentioned though after the initial run on the first release the majority will go to Joe/Jill Average not the enthusiast.
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That I agree with completely. The majority of most cars, even sports cars, go to "Joe/Jill Average" and not car enthusiast.