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Originally Posted by syr74
Actually, I think you might have paid too much attention to Zeus' response to my post and not enough to my post. That 50-55k price you mention was his estimate of what it would cost to produce and sell such a car, not mine. I never said anything about a 55k Challenger, I said that they should price the Chally for Vette/GT500 money which would be roughly mid forties....and since the GT500 was commanding prices above sticker until relatively recently I would argue that people will absolutely pay 45-50k for a Grand Tourer that is good enough to make them actually want to buy the car.
As for the Taurus SHO, while I was a skeptic myself when that car was introduced you might want to revisit your thoughts on what will or wont sell, I know I had to. The Taurus is selling about twice as many units per month as the G8 did in it's best ever sales month, and according to Ford the bulk of that demand is for the highest end offerings like loaded SEL models and the SHO. In other words, Taurus is meeting Ford's expectations and then some and a notable portion of the cars making that happen are priced in that 40k dollar range you surmise wont work.
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I'm sorry, but that is impossible to do. A grand touring challenger with a pdk would cost at least 50k. And nobody would pay 50k, except for maybe your few diehard challenger fans. As for the SHO, look at what they tried to do. They tried to make a high performance sedan, like the 300CSRT8. They failed miserably. The brakes on the car are fail, as many magazine have noted. The engine runs a quarter mile in the high 13's, low 14's, something my lightly modded gti could easily do. The car is way too heavy and is easily outhandled by a base g37. They managed to make a car that is remarkably similar to the genesis, except that it is even more expensive, thus it fails to beat the competition. I don't think it will have good sales, that might be just the SHO faithful, just wait a few months...