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Old 01-10-2009, 12:55 PM   #8 (permalink)
jbernie
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Re: Rumored: Beat @ NAIAS Testing Waters For Possible US Launch

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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65 View Post
You'd think that the overwhelming response to the whole "Vote for your favorite concept" thing would've been enough to justify a US launch...
Not quite, there is a decent difference between some random online vote over which care you like best out of (present choices) and actually doing a serious review of potential market etc etc. When the vote was on there was no pricing attached or features listed they were just design concepts.

Now go to the market and say, here is the car, how likely are you consider it, what about at pice x, y & z, now with these standard/optional features etc.

The vote was enough to show GM that there was potential interest, not to look for actual interest
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