And what's REALLY unbelievable is that people are paying up to $10k over
sticker for
retro-panel-wagon-on-a-mini-car-chassis PT Cruisers!
Gary McCormick
"Hall, Phillip" wrote:
> The way I see this price thing - every new car is always much cheaper at
> this stage of introduction. Remember the Miata was to be a 12,000 dollar
> car - hit the show rooms at 15K plus. The new Z will may be 29,999 at
> introduction, but well over 30K with any options and a year later will be
> around 35K. The marketing strategy is to get any possible potential buyer
> all excited (low price, sales pitch, ....) then when the car hits the show
> room people will not freak out over 2 to 4K more. If they do their job
> right people will walk into the show room and have to have one. Heck - Mom
> paid 20K (5K over list) for Miata #366 because she had to have it.
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: STAN CHERNOFF [SMTP:az589@lafn.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:54 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Z Concept - OT
>
> A couple of points.
>
> First, the new Z car is not a "Concept" since it is close to the
> final
> production version.
>
> Second, Nissan said that the price would be under $30K.
>
> These comments were made by the big "boss", Carlos G., in an
> interview by
> CNBC at the Detroit car show yesterday. There is a car that was
> displayed
> to the employees at Nissan headquarters yesterday.
>
> Stan
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