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Originally Posted by Baywire
I'm going to assume you meant 9.5 Million. Since 95 million would be about 27% of America being out of a job which is just not true. It's around 5% (which is about 17.5 million).
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I think however, we as a thread have definitely come to a conclusion that ONE of the problems with the Camaro is it's price. I think we agree that the car is worth the price however the market who wants to buy it is not necessarily able to afford it. Which then becomes GM's fault not our own, for producing a car that people cannot afford.
Why has the Camaro become such an expensive car? GM clearly has become this high investment high return kind of company. They want to see a return on their product immediately. (THE LTG ENGINE IS 9000 DOLLARS! and LS3 is ~7k and LT1 is 11... for 2 grand more than a 430hp V8 engine you can buy a newer smaller and less powerful engine!)
GM, plz.
Now I love the exclusivity of the Camaro, I don't think exclusivity should be based solely on price. It's a new generation "new platform" which is actually old but the entire body and interior is new and yea that costs money and that usually means an increase is price. Should the price go up the following MY? Probably not, but it did, further cementing (for me) that GM is looking for high returns on 'low' production cars.
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http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/...f-labor-force/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...workforce.html
And the 9.5 million comes from this.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/95-m...ce-under-obama
In this economy car sales are going to suffer. And they are across the board.