ORIGINAL: ResumeSpeed
Sorry, but CNN is WRONG and so is your owner. Chrysler has NEVER officially stated that they would build 5000 Challengers for MY 2008. This was an unofficial number that someone came up with some months back and it spread across various news sources and across the net.
As of December 20th, Dodge had taken exactly 8,851 pre-orders on the 2008 Challenger. At that point in time 7,200 2008 models were scheduled for production (6,500 for the U.S. and 700 for Canada). That number has now been raised. The pre-order number as of today is well over 9000.
All right...What qualifications make you know the production numbers over my owner and inventory manager who go to private Dodge events where they let the owners know what is going on with the company, and what to expect for the coming year?
The fact is, we're one of the largest volume Dodge and Ford dealerships in the southeast, and we don't even know how many Chargers we're getting. They have told us 2008 production numbers will be around 4700 units for the US, which we figured will alot us 3 for the year.
I don't see why you want to jump down my throat and tell me how horribly wrong I am when I'm trying to provide information to the community about the vehicle. I haven't made one sales pitch since I've joined, nor do I intend to. I joined because I think the car is cool and thought I might be able to get the community a little "inside" information
because of my job.
What difference does it make what I do for a job? Every salesperson isn't a lying pile of crap. I don't lie to get car sales. I'm just lucky enough where I get to be around cool cars all day and help people obtain them.
All I'm doing is relaying the information that our owner and inventory manager told us in a store meeting after they came back from a national Dodge dealership owners meeting. If you somehow have more evidence to show that our owner and CNN are wrong, please let me know, and I'll stand corrected.
ORIGINAL: BootCamp
Didn't Dodge state that pricing for the 2008 Challengers would be very close to that of the Chargers? Since that info was dead-on, wouldn't it be safe to assume the same would be true of 2009's?
Look at the current 2008 Charger pricing and add 2%. You should be extremely close to the stickers on similarly trimmed 2009 Challengers.
You'd think a knowledgable salesman would have known/said that.
Like I said, no information has been given out. If you want me to whip numbers out of thin air and tell you yes, it will be similar to Chargers, then I will. The fact is, I don't know what prices are going to be. At this point in the game it would only be an
assumption. I don't see how you can insult my intelligence and integrity as a sales consultant because I don't know information that has not been announced.