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Originally Posted by Q'smuscle
Hey, the Dodge and Chevy needs to pick on someone its own size! lmao.... looks like the mustang was getting bullied!
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Hi Q. Wish you a good new year. I got my stang rolling just twice in the last 60 days. I did not swap back to the factory Pirelli all season wheel set, and left the summer 275/40R18s on for the winter. With all the snow and ice the pony stays in the garage. It needs to be in the forties to drive summer tires and I don't like salt and slop on my GT.
You feeling good about sales numbers, and should. How about a little big picture here. Mustang is in the tenth year of a platform generation. It has stood 5 years sales competition against the later date entry, more advanced Camaro. The 2015 stang is 9 months away. The S197 production ends in June. It does not figure mustang will lead. Will Camaro stand five years competition against a later date entry more advanced Mustang. No! Oshawa is planned for shut down now, and GM is trying to hold their exposure to competing with a later date entry mustang to one year. That is good sales strategy but expensive. Ford made money with S197 and they will make money with the S550 platform. Ford has always been committed to the Pony car: FoxBody-ten years, S95-ten Years, S-197 ten years, on to S550.
If Camaro sales stay at 5000 a month the gen5 will not reach 500,000.
S-197 is over a million for ten years. Do apples to apples: if gen 5 Camaro stayed on the market for ten years, what do the next five years look like?
I speculate not to a million. Camaro believes the world began in April 2009 and holds the lead in that time slot. The new and later entry date model factor counts for something. It has been advantage Camaro-5 years. Come fall 2014 it will be advantage Mustang. If Camaro sat on gen 5 for five more years, what happens? GM ain't going to find out. I don't blame them. Hey, I like your car, my car and the guy above who has all thee. Good Luck! Edco