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Originally Posted by palmharbor
Back in the early 1980's I was part of a panel by a firm
hired by GM to evaluate three cars made by OPEL that
GM was considering. We drove a coupé, converible and a plain
4 door sedan. We were asked our opinions and I stated that
the coupé and convertible should be imported but no the sedan.
I did however predict in writing that the four door sedan would be imported....its looks would be "Americanized"....and it would fail badly. Well it became the new LeMans....and within they were accumulating on dealer lots and rebates were offered.
It was a big failire. The other two cars were never brought
to the US.
This was poor judgement at best and it continues to this day.
Here is Florida only the 66+ consumers drive Buicks and I can tell you their buying time is limited. What has GM done...nothing.
The new Camaro looks like it came from the MAC Truck
school of design. It will suffer the same fate as the new Thunderbird...people say wow at the autoshow but they
don't buy it when it comes out.
The Cadillac and Corvette (cars for the wealthy) have new [non-retro] designs but the designer of the Camaro relied on
old designs...in 6 months rebates will be used to sell the Camaro. I would bet money on it.
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I would believe you if I have not already had 10 or more people come to the dealership with a $5000 cashier's check to reserve the first Camaro. We have turned them all away and our pre-order list is close to 50 people right now.