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12-03-2020, 03:25 PM | #1023 |
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Itll be here before you know it.
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It’s the low volumes that make it hard for ‘affordable’ sports cars to be highly profitable. Individual margin per car is probably no worse, and often a lot better, than their mainstream models. Even at the top end of the market, the exotic sports car manufacturers like Porsche, Jaguar, Lamborghini, and now Ferrari, who have very healthy margins baked into every car, felt the need to diversify and start selling ‘super SUVs’ to help pad out their profit columns, simply because the volume is in SUVs rather than sports cars. It’s sad, and it means sports cars are always an endangered species nowadays, especially from the mainstream brands whose real volume is SUVs, trucks, utes, vans etc. Even sedans and hatchbacks, staples of regular car design, are becoming increasingly niche products as SUVs and dual cab utes/trucks take over as the default car type. Nothing can stop them taking over our roads, it seems! |
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Yeah, not sure why. It’s reliable, economical and safe transportation for normal people who just need an affordable ‘car’ for transport and who don’t want to deal with the headaches enthusiasts into unusual, exotic or highly modified cars have to deal with. A Corolla is a car you can afford to own and run for decades with relatively low running costs and routine maintenance... IOW, a far smarter financial choice compared to the often unreliable and expensive enthusiast cars many of us choose to make our passion.
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12-03-2020, 04:29 PM | #1029 |
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Yeah January will be here before we know it, and the GR86 will debut. IIRC, it's supposed to debut at the TAS in January right?
Anway, I'm more anxious about the pricing to see what's going to be offered, I'm still holding out hope that the PP will be offered despite all signs indicating that it won't be. Dumb move imo on their part, unless they're cooking up something special. |
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^After financing charges etc they make a lot more than 500 bucks on a Corolla.
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Actually, the real profit margins are in the Service Departments. I'm not saying that there's no profit in sales but a good service manager makes way more than a good car salesman. |
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It is what my wife has done for 25 years so I know this as a fact.
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Apparently it'll find its way into the latest Gymkhana, and based on this clip it sounds pretty good (to me anyway):
https://twitter.com/subaru_usa/statu...37586334298112
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Ahhhh well they are dumb then. Without the Corolla there would be no other Toyota cars. It is the one that pays the bills. Well the Camry pitch's in for rent every once in a while.
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