Originally posted by The EX- Striped SVT:
Originally posted by CLASSVT:
Originally posted by The EX- Striped SVT:
They expected 30% to go for the V8 and 70% to go for the V6 and it ended up vise versa, stupid, period




Yeah it was really stupid for them to base their numbers on the sales trends of

EVERY SINGLE MODEL MUSTANG EVER BUILT. What were they thinking. I haven't checked but I would bet the V6 still heavily outsells the GT, and not because of limited quantity. There is probably just a minor shift in demand.




Well, lemme see, the car looks great w/ its cool, retro styling and the base price of the V8 is $25K, hmm, I think 3 out of 10 will buy it, yeah, yeah, thats it Are you serious with the above statement




His statement is true. Every Mustang previously had a production allocation of between 70 and 75% V6s and 25 to 30% V8s (when applicable of course). Initial allocation of the 2005 was upped a small amount over normal to 68/32.

The "cool retro looks" are the same between the V6 and the V8 so that doesn't explain any rush to buy the V8 over the V6. The price difference between the V6 and the V8 wasn't significantly different than previous years, so it's not like people were going with the GT because it was so much cheaper than before or something. So why would this new one be any different than the countless others before it for the past 50 years? There was zero reason to expect the sudden shift in demand. And it's not like the shift was that great. Just having a production allocation a percent or two off can create shortages. It was a minor hiccup in demand is all which sorted itself out within just a few months for most areas.

And then of course there's the fact that knowingly shorting the market is great for business. Cutting the production allocation just a couple percentage points creates market shortages, allowing you to easily get away with MSRP and creates copious amounts of free press. Lost sales are few and far between since most people are going to wait since there's no alternative fif you're looking at that market.


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