Originally Posted by ben47
Your figures seems a little high. If I'm not mistaken, the original production run was supposed to be 20,000 units a year worldwide. 15,000 were to be sold in the US.
according to whom? chrysler? chrysler claims not to provide information on production numbers. just ask the 2004 dodge ram rumble bee "limited production" truck owners. chrysler dealers advertised that only 3,700 would be made. each truck was individually numbered. somehow the numbers approached 5K in 04. then they started over at 0 for the 05 model year and built 5K more.
look at it this way - if chrysler built 20K crossfires each year during calendar years '03, '04, and '05, plus maybe 5K crossfires so far in '06, there would be 65K crossfires in existence worldwide.
the u.s. sales data i provided is directly from chrysler press releases so it is accurate.
therefore, chrysler has sold 38K of the 30K units designated for the u.s. market. more accurately, chrysler has sold 38K out of close to 50K units in the u.s.
friends, it isn't a lack of advertising that is resulting in the "poor" sales. it is OVERPRODUCTION plain and simple.