XtremeMaC
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Show us the money first Steven! Wear a sign saying you're willing to pay $10K moreThe dealerships really are awful. I went into my local dealer up the road to see one, and nobody came up to me to talk about the car for a good while, just a bunch of sales guys standing around talking amongst themselves. When I asked a salesman if I could look inside and under the bonnet, he told me that he can't do that and only the store manager has access to the car. They didn't even seem interested in trying to sell the thing at all.
I'll have to go into the dealers nowadays and see how they react. During the summer with the absolute zero knowledge they had on the car plus the lack of actual physical car, as everyone knows, they couldn't and didn't offer much in terms of pricing to availability... Wonder if that changed a bit now.
I did comment in the Jalopnik article, always pending, I'll reiterate the biggest hurdle which is not how much BMW it has or whatever, it's simply the amount of struggle Toyota had in putting the vehicle in the showrooms this whole summer.
You can only expect a handful of interested people in forums like this to go out and pre-order or go into a dealer and sit through non-existing ordering process with colors you saw online unless you were lucky enough to be at VA/TX/LA. Personally I didn't exactly know which color I wanted to get. I was inclining towards a yellow, but couldn't make a well informed decision and I wanted to get my hands on LE, which yellow wasn't even an option and black/red for me didn't do it.
I don't know if the amount of dealer and availability f'up has been the same in Europe.
For one thing if you go to any Porsche, Vette or BMW dealer, you know the colors or at least given a color palette. Toyota couldn't even be bothered to send palettes to dealers. On the other hand you look at C8, all options, not just the coloring have been physically advertised in stores, there was an official launch date where people went in and actually placed their orders.
Supra is and, if not for nothing, at least due to such f'ups, will be limited to niche market hence lower volume.
I also highlighted that this is a sports car, meant for spring/summer and people getting their hands on the car late summer going into shitty rainy/snowy fall then winter isn't exactly the prime time for people to consider a car on summer tires.
On the other hand, on purpose or not, C8 (now perhaps 3 months further delayed) was targeted to come out in January, even better now with the strike it may come out in April and especially since it comes with a convertible, for sure will sell more in it's first year.
In short, timing and availability is, if at all, what's mostly causing lower sales volumes would be my opinion.
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