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When will the price drop?
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<blockquote data-quote="smaxson" data-source="post: 4118322" data-attributes="member: 38786"><p><strong>Dropping prices??? Lets be realistic.</strong></p><p></p><p>Don't see the price dropping too much... yes, the big ADM's will drop as the newness and "gotta have the first one" wears off. But let's review some numbers... last time I inquired (this spring) Mustang GT with manuals were selling at sticker or a couple of hundred dollars off. This is after two years of production. Last years production was something like 160K units. Assuming half were V6 and half were V8 and guessing that half of the V8's were manuals, this means there were 40K cars GT/manuals sold... and they're still selling at or near sticker. Now lets switch to the Shelby... a limited production(~9K units), high horsepower Mustang with a piece of history tacked on its name. Then combine this with the fact that Ford still sells them in the high end markets despite the fact that any Ford dealer could sign up for one, and I don't see the price plummeting. Maybe coming around to a little more reasonable (MSRP to 5K over) maybe even an occasional under sticker deal. But lets face it the current Mustang is hot and the limited production models are even hotter. What happened to the terminators in '04 was the introduction of the '05's. Once we got a look at the new car, the "old" car was just that old. Then Ford announced that SVT was going to build a Cobra version or even a Shelby. Well, that was the end of the "old" SN95 body and the market reflected that. As stated before in this thread, start looking for a reasonable dealers, they are out there. I've found several and closed my own deal that is not even close to what the boys are getting on eBay. And I'm getting all the paperwork, posters and banners from the dealership thrown in on the deal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smaxson, post: 4118322, member: 38786"] [b]Dropping prices??? Lets be realistic.[/b] Don't see the price dropping too much... yes, the big ADM's will drop as the newness and "gotta have the first one" wears off. But let's review some numbers... last time I inquired (this spring) Mustang GT with manuals were selling at sticker or a couple of hundred dollars off. This is after two years of production. Last years production was something like 160K units. Assuming half were V6 and half were V8 and guessing that half of the V8's were manuals, this means there were 40K cars GT/manuals sold... and they're still selling at or near sticker. Now lets switch to the Shelby... a limited production(~9K units), high horsepower Mustang with a piece of history tacked on its name. Then combine this with the fact that Ford still sells them in the high end markets despite the fact that any Ford dealer could sign up for one, and I don't see the price plummeting. Maybe coming around to a little more reasonable (MSRP to 5K over) maybe even an occasional under sticker deal. But lets face it the current Mustang is hot and the limited production models are even hotter. What happened to the terminators in '04 was the introduction of the '05's. Once we got a look at the new car, the "old" car was just that old. Then Ford announced that SVT was going to build a Cobra version or even a Shelby. Well, that was the end of the "old" SN95 body and the market reflected that. As stated before in this thread, start looking for a reasonable dealers, they are out there. I've found several and closed my own deal that is not even close to what the boys are getting on eBay. And I'm getting all the paperwork, posters and banners from the dealership thrown in on the deal. [/QUOTE]
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