Will Ford have it's own eight six?

[greenfoam]

+1, there is absolutely no reason why the Monaro or any two door version of a common car needs to be or should cost more than the base model. That's a major marketing error right there.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by greenfoam

+1, there is absolutely no reason why the Monaro or any two door version of a common car needs to be or should cost more than the base model. That's a major marketing error right there.

So all the chassis development and testing of a completely separate vehicle is free?

[greenfoam]

Originally Posted by flappist

So all the chassis development and testing of a completely separate vehicle is free?

It's no more different than a wagon or ute. Plenty of hatchbacks are sold in 3 and 5 door versions with the 3 doors always being cheaper if anything....

[flappist]

Originally Posted by greenfoam

It's no more different than a wagon or ute. Plenty of hatchbacks are sold in 3 and 5 door versions with the 3 doors always being cheaper if anything....

Wagons are always dearer, utes are much cheaper to build and hatches are designed to be 3 or 5 door, they are not different chassis.

[2011G6E]

Especially when you have a common platform. They can, basically, put any old body they want on top of it. Other manufacturers have been doing this for years...look at how many different cars with different makers badges on them are based on a VW Golf platform for instance...everything from a "normal" hatchback to astounding looking coupes and wagons.

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by greenfoam

+1, there is absolutely no reason why the Monaro or any two door version of a common car needs to be or should cost more than the base model. That's a major marketing error right there.

1. Desirability
2. The production run for RHD versions of Monaro was fewer than Commmodore or Sportwagon.
3. The LHD Monaro had a different cost centre based on US payments, sales ther were lower priced.

Those lower priced Monaros suffered badly with currency shift and made virtually no money,
Pontiac G8 was an unmitigated disaster - $200 millon writedown thanks to GMNA incompetence.

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by jpd80

1. Desirability
2. The production run for RHD versions of Monaro was fewer than Commmodore or Sportwagon.
3. The LHD Monaro had a different cost centre based on US payments, sales ther were lower priced.

Those lower priced Monaros suffered badly with currency shift and made virtually no money,
Pontiac G8 was an unmitigated disaster - $200 millon writedown thanks to GMNA incompetence.

The manufacturers had to come up with a raft of excuses way back when the little front wheel drive Capri convertible was exported to the USA and the media here revealed it was selling for something like half what it was in Australia even after the extra engineering costs in making it LHD.

[ryeman]

The big issue is the $A nowadays be the US or UK/Euro cars sold here or there.
I remember in the early 70's, when AWE were ~$8K, the E class Merc was~ $100K, and 40 yrs later around the same with wages ~8 times higher!