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Originally Posted by comiskeybum
well thanks.......thats a very valid point.
however.......Ford sold plenty of Stangs in those years that you speak of. In my opinion it wasnt reason enough to stop camaro
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well, where ford was marketing 1 car, GM was having to market 2. and trying to sell both of them.
so say the production minimum was 80,000 cars to warrant keeping it in production.
ford can sell 50,000 v-6's and 30,000 v-8s of the mustang
but GM has to sell 80,000 of the Camaro AND 80,000 of the Firebird. and if one's sales were lacking, they wouldnt just stop making that version when they both shared the same platform they would have to kill off both at the same time.
so basically you have GM buyers that pick either camaro or firebird vs ford buyers that pick mustang. ford only had to sell half the qty to stay in the game. thats part of the big reason that there is no future firebird. Scott has mentioned before that the days of "sister" cars that all you have to do is swap the front fascias and they are the same, are over. GM is coming back with just the Camaro this time around, so hopefully we'll never have to be without it again.