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Re: Detroit's Pony Car Dilemma
But thankfully DCX has more common sense than to listen to some armchair seer reading tea leaves. This guy is obviously neither a fan of the era nor of the cars themselves. I say stick to your Camry if it makes you happy and leave the real cars to the "boy racers" (snort). He grudgingly acknowledges the spectacular success of the new mustang (compared to any modern market segment, not just pony cars) and then turns around and questions the overall market size because it failed to match the all time sales record for 50 years running of 400,000 units. He holds up the Pontiac GTO as an example of what could happen but neglects to mention the main reason for its failure: it isn't true to the form. The guy thinks the challenger could fail because its "too retro". Give me a break. It will sail past even the wildest expectations precisely because it is "too retro".
We've been forcefed a diet of cheap ass beaters for almost three decades, so long most people can't remember what its like to drive an american car with class and presence. Then DCX steps up to the plate and gets flooded by a tidalwave of positive feedback with people demanding the car be built. And how should we interpret this enthusiasm..? Yeah I'm sure they're all lying Jerry when their only instinct is to throw their wallets at the DCX rep in the Dodge booth. Do the math.
The only thing he actually gets right is there needs to be a v6 base platform to compete with mustang for the teens and secretaries. But we on this board have been saying this for... what? months now.
Last edited by firstmethod : 02-08-2006 at 06:51 PM.
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