george vee

You can buy my C7 for 10k off sticker when I sell it next year to buy a 2015 C7 L88

ryoder

I grabbed a 2013 with an automatic for 39K after rebates and 1k gmcard. That is around 12k under MSRP. I call that a great deal. If I had 3k on my GMCard I could have had it for 37k as they lifted the restriction.

I am hoping that I can do something close to that on a C7 in 4 years.

JerriVette

Clearly the 7th year of c7 production will allow for 10 grand off...

Till then pony up the extra cash and prepare to pay near msrp ...

Which in the case of this amazingly fast c7 is more than fair...

The only other way to get ten grand grand off sticker is to buy an off lease special 36 months from this falls actual release of new cars

Jmo

AORoads

$10K off MSRP is do-able, sometime. I just don't know when.

BUT, as said above, there won't be $10K off a very base, no-options Stingray. Matter of fact, there never was, even in the C6 era. There was, however, as much as $5K off a stripped, no-option C6 which began as early as '07 models, the third model year.

As to GM making cars, and lots of them regardless of how they sell at the dealers, that's possible but not probable. And very unlikely. Witness: the last three or so model years of C6. GM did not produce the 2008 run of 35,000 cars in '09, '10, '11, '12, etc. In most of those years, every year they trimmed production numbers in anticipation of lowered demand for the next year.

And as to making, or not making money on 12,000 cars sold per year, with the sunk costs already paid off years ago during the C6 run, modified wages and benefits, as well as the sharing of parts among lines/models, I'd say the car was profitable for GM even with about 1,000+ units sold per month in the last two years. At least, if I were in finance/accounting, I could make the case for GM. And I bet the smart types at GM could do the same for the C7 model run, too.

MikeyTX

If GM holds to the allocation system for the entire life cycle of the C7, it won't happen. Enjoy your just purchased 2013 ..........................

george vee

In 5 years the MSRP could be 10k higher than it is now.Dealers will discount it and then, why wait.

Greg00Coupe

Who has that crystal ball? What will the economy do? What if we have another terrorist attack? And most important what if god forbid we get a medical challenge which makes us wish we paid sticker??????????

Glenmcp

10K seems to much to me. Perhaps when C7's are still on the lot when C8's come out.

MikeyTX

God forbid my ex wife should move back here from Canada ..................

JoesC5

Correct....
GM had the plant designed to run at 18.5 units per hour for the C5 and the C6(up until the economy bust). They then cut it back to 11 units per hour and then cut it back to 8 units per hour.

For the C7, they have the line back to 18 per hour. They plan on spitting them out as fast as possible and will discount them(through incentives to their dealers) to keep production up the plant, when the retail demand drops(and it will).

MikeyTX

If this is the case, once the "first kid on the block" bubble pops, as it will sooner than later, prices should drop considerably by early spring as they did with the C6 in '06

LIE2ME

You are certainly entitled to your opinion (albeit just a tad obnoxious). If you read my post closely, you would have seen that I was considering the $3000.00 Corvette loyalty discount, as well as the $3000.00 capped out GM card. Throw a $1500.00 rebate in there and all I am asking the dealer for is $2500.00 off the over $5000.00 profit he would be making on the car. This does not even include the 3% GM dealer holdback. All in all a very doable deal once the "newness" of the car wears off. You can call it "fantasy" all you want, but that is how the car business has been working since the 1940s. I am pretty sure one interesting new model is not going to change a paradigm established decades ago. If you do believe things are going to suddenly change to that extent, then I would suggest it is you my friend living in fantasy land.

JoesC5

My 1964 Corvette was built Oct 7, 1963. That's one year after the introduction of the new 1963 Stingray. The sales of the 1963 Stingray were up 50% over the 1962 C1(which was the highest production year of the C1 run). The 1964 sales were even better than the 1963's sales. No economy bust like now.

MSRP of my loaded 64 was a little over $4900 and the selling price was $4,191(not including sales tax, title or tags). A 14.4% discount off MSRP just one year into the C2's run.

So a 14.4% discount on a one year old loaded C7 at $65,000 would be $9360.

It happened in 1964, so it can happen 50 years later in 2014.

mpuzach

GM will build exactly the number of cars that the deakers order, plain and simple. Once the plant is operating at full speed, production numbers are determined by dealers, not GM. The only possible exception would be if the plant is operating at full capacity and still cannot meet demand, an unlikely scenario.

JoesC5

While your statement is true about GM only building C7's that the dealers order, GM will offer incentives to the dealers to maintain production when the dealer's orders start to fall off. The dealers will then have some additional wiggle room to offer discounts to their customers in order to boost sales. If that's not enough to spur sales, then GM will offer incentives directly to the retail customer to spur sales. Then the dealers will turn around and order more C7's from GM.

In other words, GM has the means to boost sales to keep the line moving in Bowling Green when the demand drops in the dealer's showroom. GM does not just set on it's butt and wait for the dealers to order.

Oh, and just like in the past, GM has the capability to work overtime to meet orders from their dealers. An hour a day plus eight on Saturday equals a 30% increase in production each week.

mpuzach

Your points are well taken.

mikemote

probably the same as all of the previous ,history repeats itself imho

michaelinmech

Originally Posted by Greg00Coupe
Who has that crystal ball? What will the economy do? What if we have another terrorist attack? And most important what if god forbid we get a medical challenge which makes us wish we paid sticker??????????


Isn't the ex wife moving back the same thing as a terrorist attack !!

RocketGuy3

I don't know if we'll see 10K off with any regularity at all anytime soon. But I think we could probably see 5K+ by the second model year.

JoesC5