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Old 03-18-2008, 07:25 PM
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Re: REPORT: 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 not sold out, but bring your wallet

Sorry to upset you Vinny but when the Challenger first came out it was not a "halo" car. I thought the BIG 3 was into making alot of money by selling alot of vehicles. Ford has made pretty good money selling several hundred thousand Mustangs, Dodge made alot of money on most Mopar fans with the Durango, 300c, Ram etc. Those were NOT a "halo" car and the company made profits from these vehicles.

Let me be clear that we want Chrysler to be profitable and hope they will be around for many years. However it is difficult for them compete against
Toyota, Nissan & Honda as they are getting millions of people behind the wheels of their brands.

We also want the dealerships to make money, but we would like to be able to get the vehicles we ordered and not have them sold out from under us.

Many of the people here have gotten calls from their dealerships trying to take their ordered cars for them to sell to others.

Chrysler should learn from some mistakes from Ford when they came out with the Thunderbird. They only made a limited quantity the first year and made the car not as attainable for most customers. Thus those customers bought another brand. By the way notice how Ford did not make the same mistake twice with the Mustang.


We will all get over it when the cars arrive, our choices will be simple.
A. The dealership takes the ordered car and sells it to someone else.
B. They have our cars we ordered ready to buy at the agreed price.
C. They tack on a hefty AMT to the car and we still buy it, or we walk away.
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