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Originally Posted by ASAP
i just dont know what they were thinking here outside of our customers are perhaps uneducated
then the dealers thought it was a good idea to put markups on these
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i'll try to dig up the interview, but a nissan product manager basically said straight up they wanted to maintain a "favorable supply-demand situation" and "they never intended to match the production of prior Z cars to keep this limited" aka we did this on a shoestring budget to squeeze every penny out of the 5-10k boomer-era diehards who will pay whatever their dealers ask.
it's sad, but this is the state of affairs in most of the performance car market. also see: GRC, CTR, ITS, and to some extent RS3 etc
edit: found it.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/new-ca...st-no-contest/
"Just look at the limited production of the ordinary Z, whose U.S. sales this year totaled just 966 cars through June. Part of that is due to production delays related to semiconductor shortages, as well as a new manufacturing process at Nissan’s factory in Tochigi, Japan, but it’s also a deliberate strategy. “It’s getting harder and harder to make sports cars,” explained Hawson, the product planning director. The days of us making 15 or 25 thousand 350Zs is long gone, which means the Z NISMO is a limited version of a limited car.”'
This pissed me off again just reading it lmfao