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<blockquote data-quote="thePill" data-source="post: 13128980" data-attributes="member: 119504"><p>I wish they wouldn't do that, why do they feel the need to over produce vehicles. They ultimately have to offer rebates on left over product. While most would disagree seeing as the Camaro hardly offers cash back. However, they have nearly 60,000 unsold 2010-2013 Camaro's. I know the '14 looks like crap and maybe people will feel compelled to buy the older model. I doubt that will happen... Those 60,000 didn't sell because nobody wanted them in the first place. It looks impressive on paper to investors but if you really pay attention, production of the previous model was mismanaged. It requires two shifts to build what they do a month and I have no doubts a single shift could meet demand. First year they produced 129,000 cars because initial sales projections were 150,000. They only sold 98,000 of those 129,000... Back then, that was a three shift operation. I think two shifts would have been good year two. A single shifts production numbers could remain low, saving production cost while sales are fluffed by remaining '10-'11 stock. Buy 2014, most of the '10-'13's would be gone. Eventually, sales become limited by special order. As long as production cost remain high, Chevy will need to recoup all that back via invoice. It makes it difficult to offer any manufacturer rebates while this is happening. What's worse is the 5th Gen probably hasn't turned a profit yet and probably won't if the new car is due out 2016.</p><p></p><p>As far as selling in Europe, yeah, you could still import a Camaro. You are going to pay import prices though. You can't put one in every driveway at the price they are asking now. It eliminates the whole "global" idea and again, increases R&D and production cost just to appease a very small percentage of customers. I'm talking like twelve sales a year... The Camaro has already made changes to the 2014 to meet EU standards. In fact, some of the styling was dictated by regulation. That is real dollars lost...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thePill, post: 13128980, member: 119504"] I wish they wouldn't do that, why do they feel the need to over produce vehicles. They ultimately have to offer rebates on left over product. While most would disagree seeing as the Camaro hardly offers cash back. However, they have nearly 60,000 unsold 2010-2013 Camaro's. I know the '14 looks like crap and maybe people will feel compelled to buy the older model. I doubt that will happen... Those 60,000 didn't sell because nobody wanted them in the first place. It looks impressive on paper to investors but if you really pay attention, production of the previous model was mismanaged. It requires two shifts to build what they do a month and I have no doubts a single shift could meet demand. First year they produced 129,000 cars because initial sales projections were 150,000. They only sold 98,000 of those 129,000... Back then, that was a three shift operation. I think two shifts would have been good year two. A single shifts production numbers could remain low, saving production cost while sales are fluffed by remaining '10-'11 stock. Buy 2014, most of the '10-'13's would be gone. Eventually, sales become limited by special order. As long as production cost remain high, Chevy will need to recoup all that back via invoice. It makes it difficult to offer any manufacturer rebates while this is happening. What's worse is the 5th Gen probably hasn't turned a profit yet and probably won't if the new car is due out 2016. As far as selling in Europe, yeah, you could still import a Camaro. You are going to pay import prices though. You can't put one in every driveway at the price they are asking now. It eliminates the whole "global" idea and again, increases R&D and production cost just to appease a very small percentage of customers. I'm talking like twelve sales a year... The Camaro has already made changes to the 2014 to meet EU standards. In fact, some of the styling was dictated by regulation. That is real dollars lost... [/QUOTE]
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