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Hope you didn't have any damage out your way. Wife's uncle in Doylestown had a big tree down in their back yard, and my niece in Westville, NJ had lots of wind but no damage.
Actually, "Subaru" is the Japanese name for the Pleiades or "Seven Sisters" star formation. The Subaru logo represents the stars in the constellation. The Subaru vehicle is manufactured by Fuji Heavy Industries.
Just kidding, but you get the point.
TV has become unwatchable without DVR to skip those.
I like Tercel better than Yaris, they should go back to some older names.
We are getting enough political talk on TV without it here on Edmunds.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I don't buy those names as good examples of "length of use" in Chevy name brands. For instance, the Camaro was non-existent for years, and only a retro revival resurrected it.
Fair enough, and true. I didn't name the candidate, at least.
Were they trying to build up pent up demand for the Camaro?
Wasn't the conversation here that GM always changes model names because of 'bad karma' from the old names? Obviously, if that were the case here, the new Camaro would have been called something else.
And isn't rather early to shut the doors on the ATS? Sheesh.
A couple of months out of date, but the graphs give a fairly good long-term history of the Camaro, Mustang and Challenger.
Draw your own conclusions as that the data signifies...
http://www.camaro5.com/october-2012-camaro-sales-and-production-figures-and-vs-m- ustang-challenger
GM site says 5122 Camaros sold in October.
I think the Camaro fan boy site uses less than factual data to promote their agenda.
http://media.ford.com/images/10031/Oct12sales.pdf
http://media.gm.com/dld/content/Pages/news/us/en/2012/Nov/gmsales/_jcr_content/r- ightpar/sectioncontainer/par/download/file.res/Deliveries%20Oct%202012.pdf
Also, the link you posted shows a date of October 2nd. How can they know what October sales will be on the second day of the month;)
Following the link from that page looks like they are referencing September sales not October.
Frankly, with the Mustang having had a styling refresh since the Camaro has come out, I'd be surprised the Mustang wouldn't have outsold it for a long time. That has not happened as a matter of course.
I suspect they do, and they also have a bit of a halo effect. A 25 year old may come in to check one out and buy something else, a Sonic SS or Cruze or something.
The Caddy SRX by itself outsold Lincoln.
Scion outsold Lincoln.
Mini outsold Lincoln.
This is the ONLY Lincoln in recent memory that I would've purchased. Alas, it is no more! I am still interested in one as a used buy.
You can get an XTS limo now.
Lincoln is invisible.
Profit per unit is a straw man statistic. If the manufacturer can't "net" a bottom line profit, sooner or later it's "Buh-Bye!". In today's financial arena, that's much more likely to be sooner than later, unless some form of government assistance is added into the mix. Even then, nowadays that bucket is pretty shallow...
Not if the company can't stay in business.
As an example, Conde Nast ranked Virgin America as the #1 domestic airline. Yet they are hemmorhaging money and likely to go bust in the next 12 months. Not enough sales.
The body is straight, there's only a little paint besmirchment on the back trunk area, right below where you grip the trunk, on the back bumper. It could be fixed, I could probably make it look better myself by farting around with a "do-it yerself kit" of some kind. He done well wid it, really.
Easy as all get-out ta steer the thing, you can steer the car with one finger. All the "bells and whistles" and a stereo that I would head to the local Coeur d' Alene audio shop ta get replaced if I owned the car, but how could that be much of a complaint really? Ya know what I mean?
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
Accounting is quite creative and I doubt any maker releases actualy profitability per vehicle. It also depends upon the options chosen since I suspect the options are major profit makers.
As an entire company, however, GM failed miserably even though they had the huge sales volume. So it doesn't really matter if some single model made money, as the overall mix was a huge money loser.
I couldn't work the shifter of our 2001 Kia Sportage 4X4 5-speed with my broken right arm so my Gulf War vet buddy really helped me out a lot with that. It helped me stay in school and complete my training. That was an example of friendship coming through in the clutch.
Pardon the pun.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
No manufacturer reports profits in that manner.
Most would accept that Corvette is a profitable model, in its current manufacturing arrangement, but it's highly doubtful Corvette could exist profitably very long as a stand-alone entity.... Say, if a company like an investment house bought it from GM, with the intentions of making ONLY Corvettes. And, that's true if they only paid GM $1 for the operations.
Far too much engineering, technology and parts are spread across the manufacturer's spectrum of operations to give any meaningful profit/loss number for a particular model.
Subsidies for models, in order to enhance their market appeal and affordability, do exists, but are cleverly hidden and obscured by manufacturers.
In the end, it would seem that individual model successes and/or failures can only be determined by comparable units sold, even when it's clear that subsidies were used to allow a lower selling price.
The Volt comes to mind. Is there much doubt many more Volts would sell at $11,995 pricing? Wouldn't that make a successful car, based on sales, but a failure, based on costs?
Supposedly the tooling and engineering in the 80s Suburbans had been so thoroughly amortized, Chevy wound up making $7,000 or $8,000 per vehicle when they were running $15 to $20k MSRP. Old urban legend so who knows. The generation around then lasted from '73 to '91. They probably outsold the new ones about three to one.
At the end of the day, it's going to be very difficult to declare a vehicle a winner, based upon sales volumes alone. Other factors, such a s true cost of production and delivery absolutely must be required to be factored into the total equations before one can determine whether or not a model is a true marketing and profitable success story.