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Originally Posted by dlions20
Hello , I'm particularly new here so please forgive me for my ignorance.
I'm openly honest with the fact I have never been in the situation of waiting for a new model year to come out and the process behind it.
With that said , using common sense and common sense only, I cant find any logical reason of releasing the camaro in the late fall/winter.
I get that the range of when new model year cars comes out varies but this isn't any car.
I feel like this car more than any other is the ideal summer car , and just don't see why Gm thinks so many people are going to wait for the snow to buy a brand new camaro.
Someone please enlighten me on this logic? ( I should also point out that this is what ive read in terms of a release date so if it should be expected sooner , then obviously this is wrong all together).
Thanks
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That part in bold is quite the assumption on your part. What if they understand, like you & everyone else, that demand for such cars is at its lowest in the winter?
For cars like the Camaro there is usually overwhelming initial demand. Backlogs of several months are not uncommon.
On top of that, production takes a few weeks to a couple months to get into full swing. More quality control checks, workers don't yet know the most efficient way to build the car, etc.
Combining those three things together, it makes most sense to me to release the Camaro in the winter when demand is at a minimum. That way the southern states & people who absolutely need to be the first on the block to have one get theirs first. By the time the people in the northern areas are ready for a car, the production has fully ramped up. It spreads out the demand to more closely match production capacity.
Even then, there will still probably be a sizeable backlog. Which is another reason to do it in the winter rather than the summer. A few month wait from late winter puts it at an early summer delivery -unfortunate, but not too bad. A few month wait from early summer results in an early fall delivery -just in time to think about putting it away for the winter.
Of course it could simply be that due to a number of factors beyond their control, fall of 2015 is the earliest possible date that GM could start building 6th gen Camaros.