[Shotimes] OT - 2006 Mercury Milan

[Carl Prochilo]

Then why does BMW sell so many high-end sedans?  They carry a big presence
in the racing world.  Their cars are expensive to fix.  It's not american
made (could be good or bad I guess).

The GTO thing surprises me.  Does the car already have a bad rep for some
mechanical or quality issues?
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sat, August 28, 2004 11:30 am, Leigh Smith said:
> I second the "move the metal" mindset at dealers. My brother in-law is a
> finance manager, and they get additional finance incentives for moving the
> cars off the floor plan very quickly, as well as incurring almost no floor
> plan (finance) charges. A winner is a car line that moves out in 30 days.
> It
> basically costs the dealer nothing.  A loser is one that sits around for a
> few months, they have to keep discounting them to sell them, and the floor
> plan charges keep racking up, so they actually lose money on each unit
> sold.
> Now that line is a "lemon" in their eyes. Then word spreads, dealers don't
> order them, factory inventory backs up, and the factory resorts to
> blackmail
> and makes them take x number of those models to get x number of the hot
> selling model.
>
> The SHO was definately a sales "lemon". And we know that, we say that it
> was
> "under-appreciated" by the public.
>
> The current GTO is having the same problems. They have only sold 6,000
> units
> in 6 months and have another 9,000 already produced and in inventory,
> giving
> them over 9 months of inventory. A long way from their 30-60 day target.
> Cool car or not, some business manager is having a hard time keeping it
> alive and not pulling the plug.
>
> A lot of cool high-performance cars wind up with this problem, because of
> low sales potential, which is why performance cars have earned a bad rap
> in
> general with dealers even though they may be very good cars.
>
> Performance cars I can think of that fit this category are the SHO, GTO,
> Fiero GT, Cosworth Vega, Corvair, late model Camaro/Firebird, and many
> other
> stick-shift models. Ever see a five speed Grand Prix or Lincoln LS?
> Appreciate them quickly while they last, because they probably won't be
> around long.
>
> Lee
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> To: <alfitz@alfitz.com>; "'_ShoTimes'" <Shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 1:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - 2006 Mercury Milan
>
>
>> This is looking at it from the perspective of a dealer who has to move
>> the
>> metal.
>>
>> IIRC, they had leftover SHOs just about every year they were out. Even
>> my
>> current '94, which was built in 10/93, wasn't titled until 1/95-2/95
>> (it's
>> on the Carfax around here somewhere).
>>
>> Dealers aren't into whether cars are good or not.....rather, they have
> their
>> own definition...."good" cars sell because buyers want them, "bad" cars
> sit
>> on the lot sucking up finance charges.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: alfitz@alfitz.com [mailto:alfitz@alfitz.com]
>> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:51 PM
>> To: Ron Porter
>> Cc: _ShoTimes
>> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - 2006 Mercury Milan
>>
>>
>> Ouch !!  Pinto, Edsel, or Vega?
>>
>> I would like to think we are in better company than those dogs. Like
>> maybe
>> Stutz Bearcat or Packard V12....
>>
>>
>> Al Fitz
>> alfitz@alfitz.com
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