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Originally Posted by tooslow
Dead serious. For that year, Ford best beat GM's best.
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I don't understand the relevance of the comparing vehicles that have a 3x price delta and are priced roughly $100,000 apart.
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Originally Posted by tooslow
We're speaking strictly from a performance standpoint, not a price point.
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An approximately $100,000 difference in price is not immaterial. Ignoring price leaves a very important parameter out of the vehicle equation. I believe that for manufacturers that mass produce automobiles, and for most who purchase vehicles from those manufacturers, cost and pricing is a very important factor that isn't ignored.
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Originally Posted by tooslow
You know as well as I do that the reason the Ford GT MSRP'd that high was because they did not have the luxury of amortizing the cost of production/tooling out as GM did having been producing a Corvette since 1953.
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I don't believe that the reason that Ford couldn't produce the GT at a competitive price is relevant to a potential purchaser.
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Originally Posted by tooslow
My point was, if a major car company wanted to dethrone the ZR1, it likely could ...
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I believe that most understand without having it pointed out to them that given enough money, an automobile manufacturer can produce a very high performance vehicle.