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Originally Posted by SpeedIsLife
Cost was absolutely a concern with the S550.
In "A Faster Horse" they have multiple discussions about overall cost and such. One point was made about a bolt or something like that...
When a change was asked for, they looked at the price difference of the part..."oh it's only $1 more...but if every car needs it, and you project that you're going to build 500,000 cars...suddenly you're spending $500,000 more of Fords money..that's not insignificant"
GM went for "make it as great as we can"...Ford went for "make it good enough for the money"
So while yes, GM did catch Ford with their pants down...Ford did go cheap with the S550 in some areas to keep the price of entry very low.
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Good post. This isn't to say the Camaro doesn't have it's issue, but when you talk about the overall mindset of the car...
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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
I do agree that they were caught. But cost was definitely a factor in the Mustang's production. In fact, there were lots of people who went to buy Camaros, couldn't afford it, and subsequently went and got approved for the Mustang GT. People were getting them way below MSRP which even at MSRP was still much cheaper than the Camaro. The only way they could sell THAT cheaply is if they were cheaper by a large margin to begin with.
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I've spoken to a fair share of people outside of my "group" (track/autocross guys). I can say that beyond trunk size, the next factor for no buying the Camaro is the price - I've been stopped by a number of people in the near-by lower income neighborhoods (where I see a lot of Dodge Chargers) to talk about my car and people say they didn't buy the Camaro because they couldn't afford it.
Mustang is that far off in price, in respect to MSRP, but I see deals for them all the time. There may be better finance/lease deals on them too. For sure lease deals, as the lease deals are not that great for Camaro.