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rolnslo · 04-01-2009, 11:53 AM

Get your facts straight - the $20 million for Wagoner is his pension plan for putting 31 years in at GM, not a golden parachute/buyout. If GM goes into bankruptcy, only $833,000 of that $20 million is protected and he could lose the rest.

Now, figure that GM spent at least $1 billion on R&D, tooling, etc... for the Camaro. GM would have to sell 47620 LS models at a $21000 final invoice (dealer invoice minus any holdbacks, etc...) to recoup that $1 billion. BUT that doesn't take into account that GM is probably putting at least $15000 worth of materials/labor into each vehicle made. That leaves $6000 per vehicle to put towards the initial cost of R&D. They'd need to sell nearly 167,000 LS models to recoup that initial investment. If they can sell 80k per year, that's 2 years to payback the R&D costs, after that the remaining sales can go towards new R&D.

04-01-2009, 11:53 AM	#2
rolnslo Rolling along... Drives: 2011 2SS/RS SGM Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,366 View My Garage	Get your facts straight - the $20 million for Wagoner is his pension plan for putting 31 years in at GM, not a golden parachute/buyout. If GM goes into bankruptcy, only $833,000 of that $20 million is protected and he could lose the rest. Now, figure that GM spent at least $1 billion on R&D, tooling, etc... for the Camaro. GM would have to sell 47620 LS models at a $21000 final invoice (dealer invoice minus any holdbacks, etc...) to recoup that $1 billion. BUT that doesn't take into account that GM is probably putting at least $15000 worth of materials/labor into each vehicle made. That leaves $6000 per vehicle to put towards the initial cost of R&D. They'd need to sell nearly 167,000 LS models to recoup that initial investment. If they can sell 80k per year, that's 2 years to payback the R&D costs, after that the remaining sales can go towards new R&D.