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Originally Posted by 67 Convertible

I know if the dealer sells for msrp they make $2k or less. I think on my car it was about $1,700.

But how much does GM corporate make per car?? The sticker on my car was $31.800. Does anyone know what it cost GM to actually make this car? I mean the actual profit after overhead, labor and parts. Do you think they bottom line $10k per car? More? Less?
Just curious....

10K is wayyyyyy off. There is a lot of accounting going on relative to investment, overhead etc. The basics start with the basic costs - material and labor. You start adding on top for engineering and amortized investment costs on top of that.

Originally Posted by madmaxx18

A couple grand and I higly doubt the dealer makes 2 grand unless they sell it at invoice.

Do you mean invoice or MSRP? Invoice is what GM gets paid for the car....less some costs etc. that I can't quote.

Originally Posted by 67 Convertible

Maybe I should re-phrase my question. The Camaro is a new car and it cost GM hundres of thousands of dollars just to set up the plant for production. It will probably be a looong time before they make any money on the Camaro.

So let me ask about an already established model....Impala? Malibu? etc. What is the average clear profit GM makes per car?

That would be millions. And sorry, won't tell you specifics, but it clearly depends on the car. Big difference between a Cobalt and an Impala for example and both are high volume cars.

Originally Posted by talwell

One thing to remember is that GM spent hundreds of millions of dollars just building the plant in Oshawa to build these cars. Not only this, but I am sure they spent over $100 million to develop, engineer, test and build just this single model. So with that in mind - I am sure that any profit that is seen by GM is factored out based on forward facing sales figures. Initially and for long to come I am sure that the actual realized profit is $0.00 per car.

Thanks for correcting that.

Originally Posted by CamaroScotty

I'm certainly not in it for the money....My I.T. job paid 3X as much - but it went to India...

But it IS stress free, and I enjoy it....and I love the vette and camaro - so I am living a SECOND childhood. I love the reaction of people picking up their Camaro's, and making friends in MANY of the states in the USA!

Yea, I know, I'm not normal!!!

Good for you, Scotty. It is good to love your job. That alone can make up for salary..........................sometimes.

Originally Posted by CloudXTC

have a friend who works for infinity headoffice in Mississauga ontario - on an infinity g37... the price is around 45k canadian i believe.... but it actually costed around 17k to produce...

i dont know how exact this is but he was giving 'round' figures

That would be ball park for the parts and labor. Not even close when you factor in the investment dollars.

Originally Posted by RAdams

What Does GM Make on each Camaro sold??

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Originally Posted by rtcage

So the real question is what are variable production costs (labor and materials) for each Camaro sold. While I'd love to know, I bet only senior operations and corporate folks know the answer to that. Forget about the investment needed for R&D and the production facility. If you factor those in, they wont be profitable on the Camaro for a while. As for the dealer profit, that shouldn't be too hard to figure out. For their sake I hope it's a good profit. I get depressed every time I drive by ghost-town dealers these days.

Reasonable thoughts there.

But to the OP, if GM made $10,000 per car x 100,000 Camaros (likely for 2010 MY) that would be $1,000,000,000 right there. And keep in mind GM NA operations hasn't really made that much all in for much of the last 10 years.