Re: What prices!
What I was saying is that you can't corner the market on a vehicle in LOW demand (less than 100 buyers in the US as you stated, I know, because I am one of them). It's this simple. THEY ARE NOT CORNERING THE MARKET! They are cleaning up a mess. It is called liquidation. Chrysler wants them (and anything else reminding them of MB) all gone. They scooped up all they could find in the US, scattered all over the country (many dealers were glad to be rid of what they considered to be an albatross around their necks), ran 'em through the auction @ about $15,000 below invoice, and got rid of the problem of 3 year old "new" cars taking up space. A few smart dealers, with some money to invest (like Tod here), saw them as a good value if they could be focus marketed (like on this forum!!!) as a "get 'em before their gone" deal, and deserve the modest prices above auction they are and will get until they are all gone. These will sell, and then instead of a pool of 100+ or so new SRT's, there will be a pool of 8,000+ used SRT's. Supply HIGH, Demand the same as it has been for the past 4 years...LOW. Prices continue to go down until the demand gets HIGH again (5, 10, 20 years?) and the supply of clean, good running cars gets LOW again (5, 10, 20 years?)