Originally Posted by Miata 5.0
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?)
I can understand your reasoning. Like mentioned, there will never be 8,000 SRT's unless we can find a way to make them reproduce. (
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I'm not sure what you are trying to prove here. You said that Tod is doing a good job with his cars and will get his asking price because he has a few cars and is marketing them right.
That was the exact same thing I was trying to say about the other dealers who have a decent number of SRT's...they will get their asking price because they know there aren't a lot of 'new' ones left, and there aren't any more coming. There are plenty of people to buy the remaining cars.
My main point was not to expect these 'new' cars to go down too much more in price because the dealer shouldn't have to accept a lowball offer. And if you aren't careful, they could possibly be down to one or two 'new' cars left in the nation and I'm sure there are one or two people who would gladly pay more than $25K for a 'new' one if they had to.
Hurry up and get one!
