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Originally Posted by Neutral_Eyes
I'm all for hoping for a reasonably low price tag. When I go down to the Scion/Subaru dealer, I intend to evaluate the FT alone, none of their other cars interest me, so using the car as an overpriced hook would suck (for me).
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That's part of the marketing strategy behind branding it a Scion. The FR-S as the flagship makes econo-box buyers excited to get one of the more affordable little siblings. By the same token, the LFA is the overpriced hook luring enthusiasts to look at the FR-S, of the same bloodline.
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Originally Posted by Neutral_Eyes
1 to place on the spinning platform to draw people in, 1 manual, 1 auto? I think they'll do more than that, but I'd still want to custom order anyway to avoid any Joe Blows hooning with my potential car prior to purchasing it.
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The production line won't crank out FR-Ss at full blast on launch. They'll trickle them out conservatively then ramp up the supply gradually, all the while using sales numbers to calculate how many to produce long term. Dealers don't have much say in what they get. It's a case of beggars can't be choosers (dealers are the beggars). Highest volume dealers get picks of the litter and everyone else, probably depending on sales history, gets leftover runts til none are available.