C7s Should Be Sold First to People Who Have Previously Purchased New Corvettes
03-17-2013, 11:53 AM
#41
Melting Slicks
That's exactly why Ferrari is doing Lease to buy on special models to eliminate dealers from gouging their customers. I wonder what GM's official stance on these very issues are ?
03-17-2013, 11:59 AM
#42
GM told every dealer they had to sell four Corvettes either 2012 or 2013 from Jan 2nd to Dec 31st 2012 to get the C7. 75% of the dealers in the US flunked.
For the first 6-9 months only 25% of the US Chevy dealers will be selling the C7
The dealers who didn't make it can then buy the tools and send techs and salepeople to training. If they do this they can get a C7 after 9 months.
Is this right or wrong way to sell cars?
For the first 6-9 months only 25% of the US Chevy dealers will be selling the C7
The dealers who didn't make it can then buy the tools and send techs and salepeople to training. If they do this they can get a C7 after 9 months.
Is this right or wrong way to sell cars?
03-17-2013, 12:04 PM
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GM told every dealer they had to sell four Corvettes either 2012 or 2013 from Jan 2nd to Dec 31st 2012 to get the C7. 75% of the dealers in the US flunked.
For the first 6-9 months only 25% of the US Chevy dealers will be selling the C7
The dealers who didn't make it can then buy the tools and send techs and salepeople to training. If they do this they can get a C7 after 9 months.
Is this right or wrong way to sell cars?
For the first 6-9 months only 25% of the US Chevy dealers will be selling the C7
The dealers who didn't make it can then buy the tools and send techs and salepeople to training. If they do this they can get a C7 after 9 months.
Is this right or wrong way to sell cars?
03-17-2013, 01:23 PM
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Oh, wait until a few previous BMW/Porsche/whatever owners experience the average GM dealership experience and the market will be flooded with pre-owned low mileage C7s
03-17-2013, 01:27 PM
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03-17-2013, 02:26 PM
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you're serious? This isn't Ferrari, welcome to the US - land of the free, home of the brave, yadda, yadda. If I have $65,000? C7 or any other 'Vette I can buy for the price is mine.
03-17-2013, 06:07 PM
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03-17-2013, 06:19 PM
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03-17-2013, 06:55 PM
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Will never happen, but it will start the low mileage C7 for sale. many people do that, then realized a Vette is not for them. I know few former C4~C6 people who sold them within their first year.
03-17-2013, 08:14 PM
#56
Whoever bought a C5 for 75 to 125K was simply stunned. I expect dealers to not move off MSRP but there will be lots selling at that price. If someone really needs to own an early car then it shouldn't be difficult to find them at MSRP. If you buy over that then, IMO, you have more money than brain matter 
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.In the dotcom era of 1996-2000, it was routine for buyers to pay 50-75K over MSRP for cars like the first C5s, the first year of 996 Turbos ,etc. Didn't happen just here in Silicon Valley, but also in Corvette hotbeds like Texas , Florida and greater NY region. I recall even 6 +months later, dealers were still asking 10K over MSRP.
There has never been that kind of money no object buying frenzy of non Ferrari sports cars like that ever since the dot com crash of 2000, mostly because that period was the prime earnings yrs of the baby boomers who grew up around high performance cars and glory racing years ( NHRA, LeMans, Formula 1, real NASCAR racing , real Indy 500, IMSA, SCCA ) in the 1960s.
Today's typical Generation X guy in prime earnings years loves his smart phone and gadgets and Save the Earth cars more than 2 seater sports cars , since they were first gen to grow up playing on computers, not changing caps , points , gapping plugs and balancing Webers with a Unisyn.
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