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<blockquote data-quote="DBK" data-source="post: 16178612" data-attributes="member: 4088"><p>There are already several cars that are over 2 years old and available to be sold. I doubt you'll see many trade hands until early fall when production finally started hitting 15-20 a month. Most of the dealers that were awarded a car will sell them immediately, as will a lot of the people that got them as suppliers, partners etc. It'll most likely do what the 05/06 did, which is drop a lot while cars are in production and being re-sold, then when they are done, go back up. GT will end up being almost exactly the same volume over the same production time as the F40. Ultimately though, who gives a ****. The commodification of supercars is super boring.</p><p></p><p>People also don't understand the market split on this car. The 05/06 there were 4,038 cars, 101 in Europe, couple hundred in Canada, ~3700 the U.S. This car will maybe be 800-900 U.S, 300-ish Europe, maybe another 200 sprinkled globally throughout Canada, Middle East, Mexico, Asia, etc. I've been at the production facility at times when there are literally no U.S cars in production, and that happened exactly once in 06 when FVMSS killed it for the U.S market.</p><p></p><p>I'm agnostic about statistical performance. The car is faster than 99% of drivers who will ever drive it already. What can be judged behind the wheel regardless of ability is that the GT is a very different kind of car to everything else on the market. The road car is an afterthought relative to the race car, and it feels that way. I tell people the new car is the right amount of wrong; it's the rawest car on the market and it's in the cars' DNA. My biggest criticism of the car is they bothered attempting to civilize it at all. It's inherently never going to be civilized so I would have gone polar opposite and made it totally unlivable. My desire to putter around in extremely fast supercars that could be confused for daily drivers is very, very low. </p><p></p><p>Oh and I think it's one of the best looking cars of all time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DBK, post: 16178612, member: 4088"] There are already several cars that are over 2 years old and available to be sold. I doubt you'll see many trade hands until early fall when production finally started hitting 15-20 a month. Most of the dealers that were awarded a car will sell them immediately, as will a lot of the people that got them as suppliers, partners etc. It'll most likely do what the 05/06 did, which is drop a lot while cars are in production and being re-sold, then when they are done, go back up. GT will end up being almost exactly the same volume over the same production time as the F40. Ultimately though, who gives a ****. The commodification of supercars is super boring. People also don't understand the market split on this car. The 05/06 there were 4,038 cars, 101 in Europe, couple hundred in Canada, ~3700 the U.S. This car will maybe be 800-900 U.S, 300-ish Europe, maybe another 200 sprinkled globally throughout Canada, Middle East, Mexico, Asia, etc. I've been at the production facility at times when there are literally no U.S cars in production, and that happened exactly once in 06 when FVMSS killed it for the U.S market. I'm agnostic about statistical performance. The car is faster than 99% of drivers who will ever drive it already. What can be judged behind the wheel regardless of ability is that the GT is a very different kind of car to everything else on the market. The road car is an afterthought relative to the race car, and it feels that way. I tell people the new car is the right amount of wrong; it's the rawest car on the market and it's in the cars' DNA. My biggest criticism of the car is they bothered attempting to civilize it at all. It's inherently never going to be civilized so I would have gone polar opposite and made it totally unlivable. My desire to putter around in extremely fast supercars that could be confused for daily drivers is very, very low. Oh and I think it's one of the best looking cars of all time. [/QUOTE]
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