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Originally Posted by crysalis_01
You do realize that when the 488 was released (March 2015 in Geneva), GT had already been quite the way along its development track (debuting in January 2015 in Detroit).
I know, Ford, those fools, not using the time machine we all know they have to baseline a car that debuted 2 months after theirs.
How dare they baseline a supercar that was current and available at the time.
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Really?
Common sense would tell you if you benchmark a current car while building a future car you need to well surpass that benchmark. As a replacement will obviously be out before the on sale date.
$400,000 car debuts, competitors base car surpasses it from day one. Competitors track focused car due out a few months after, will even further distance itself...
Sorry, but no matter how you twist it, it makes Ford look bad when they are charging this kinda coin for this car they was said to be
the benchmark in the category months ago.
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
You don't need a time machine.
Take the first generation of the competitors model you're benchmarking against and lay out its specs. Then do the same thing for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Take those data points and make a trend line to predict what the next generation is probably going to be like.
Repeat with other competitors to get a more reliable picture of where the segment is heading.
It won't be exact, but it will give you an extremely good target. Much better than assuming that nothing will ever be better than whats currently available.
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Exactly.