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Originally Posted by TruckMan
3% is an average that I read some place (maybe Car and Driver?). Sure, performance vehicles sell more, non-performance vehicles sell less. But non-performance vehicles sell in much higher numbers than performance ones. That's why they call it an average.
It might have been an average across all vehicles? But the point of the 3% was that very, very few people buy manual transmissions. That's why I'm guessing GM isn't that motivated in putting one in the G8 GT. I'm sure they know the real numbers.
People on the truck boards complain that GM doesn't sell a half-ton crew cab with a 6.5' bed. They think it's the #1 problem with GM trucks. But GM did sell them a few years back, and nobody bought them. Nobody buys them, GM doesn't make them. Simple supply and demand.
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actually thats not a simple argument for supply and demand, it's simple proof of economy of scale denying a very viable segment of the market. i see standard cab short bed trucks EVERY day, so what GM sales 800,000 extended cab long beds and only 80-150,000 short bed standard cabs. thats still a lot of trucks no matter how u look at it. and those same people just go to your competitors. just like all of us manual lovers who are continuously denied by the major US auto makers. we also bads mouth the companies who scorn us and that cost sales to....but go ahead GM, keep thinking on the level of scale of economy, that will take u very far....oh wait, last i looked it hasn't!
