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Originally Posted by cellsafemode
the corvette just leaches sales from the camaro line. It needs to either enter supercar price territory or be absorbed into the camaro lineup.
Mustang benefits from having just the mustang from the bottom all the way to the top, then they do their Ford GT supercar. Chevy splits sales and thus increases costs with their setup. Not a winning formula in an environment that is highly toxic to anything that's not an SUV with at least 4 doors.
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They don't increase costs with this setup, in fact, they reduce costs. The Camaro is a parts-bin car. Hardly anything beside the sheetmetal is developed for the Camaro. The chassis was developed for the Cadillacs, the engine came from the Corvette, the MRC was in both Cadillac and Corvette first. Dual mode exhaust, same thing. E-diff, same thing.
I can go on and on.
The Camaro gets these things a few years later, after they debut in the halo cars, after the initial sales spike start tapering off. The Camaro sales are just icing on the cake, and squeezes a few more dollars, helping to offset the development costs of the halo cars.
It is a MUCH more profitable scenario than if the Camro rode on it's own unique chassis like the Mustang.
In fact, the next Mustang chassis is now rumored to be shared with some Ford SUV's. The CD6 will have the Mustang, Explorer, and Lincon Aviator. I am sure they are doing it to offset development costs.
But I would rather borrow a chassis that was designed (like the Alpha) to compete with an M3/4 and M5, than one designed for an Explorer...