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Originally Posted by 90503
Apparently that's the exact plan of Juechter and GM....Too bad for anyone who feels otherwise, I guess...Why not build half as many as they are now, extend the deliveries even longer, and charge twice the price?....After all, it shouldn't matter to a true Corvette buyer....
Sad that they'll never know how many more orders they could have received, cars built and money made, if they would use the capacity available to deliver more in a timely fashion....
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Originally Posted by bnall40
I suspect Tadge Juechter is only the messenger. He strikes me as a "pro-active" guy with a lot or personal effort invested. I imagine that the "pre-bailout" mentality of the higher echelons is at work again here!  |
You've got it wrong, the point is they aren't willing to hire and train an entire additional shift simply to satisfy production spikes. This ain't their first rodeo, they have the same issue every time there's a new version and history shows that by the spring supply will have met demand and they won't need that extra shift.
Personally, I would rather the people that have been trained over the last 3 months to build this car build mine, not a newly hired and trained second shift.
At their projects run rate of 160 / day they can easily build 35000 C7's for MY14 which quite honestly will be plenty. Production historically settles at around 25000 / year so if they can maintain 30000+ through successive model years the C7 will be the most successful corvette in history. All without adding a second shift.