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Originally Posted by Steel4ring
Remember they are playing catch up to the Challenger and Stang.....the longer photo show time was likely meant to give pony car buyers some pause before they went to a Dodge dealer, knowing that an attractive Camaro was only a few months behind.
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It's a great looking car... but as usual GM is late to the party. Actually I was interested to see what was happening with sales of Mustangs and Challengers, now that gas is $4 a gallon. Ran into these...
http://mustangs.about.com/b/2008/06/...49-percent.htm
http://www.chryslerweblog.com/?p=1560
I've been a V8 fan forever... I won't bore you with how many Corvettes, GTO and 442 convertibles I've owned... and I'd still buy a hotrod V8, if it was designed to be practical enough to do more than be a weekend car, and get the gas mileage of a new Corvette.
Last new weekend toy I bought was a 96 Mustang GT convertible 5 speed. I loved the car, but it depreciated $10K in 11 months and 5K miles. Had to trade it on a new GMC... just to get rid of it... and that lesson is still fresh on my mind. The only convertible I'd buy is a 5 year old Corvette, since it's already depreciated 50% of what it cost new.... and there are tons of them around with low miles.
This is depressing to me. I'll be really interested to see if these ever make it to market... and in what quantities they sell. As usual... wrong product to the market at the wrong time at the wrong price... and since it doesn't sell the way they thought it should, they blame US.