Fatcat, you're contradicting yourself.
All this is NOT!!! I repeat NOT!!! true law of supply a demand as you think but the Factory and its dealers in collusion to control the supply thereby upping or fixing a price higher than what they know they can really sell the car for and still make a profit! Just watch what happens when GM brings the Camaro back ....I'll bet that they will make as many as they can sell and they will sell plenty.
It is supply and demand. Chrysler owns a "monopoly", if you will, on Challengers, but they compete in a space that is anything but monopolistic. For us bleed Hemi Orange Mopar fans, they are the only game in town so it may feel like their manipulating it unfairly to some (not me), but for the rest of automotive purchasers in the market place, Dodge Challengers are simply another commodity that is available and price, value and demand will dictate availability.
DeBeers is a true Monopoly, because they own all means of production and supply of diamonds. They do not compete in a free market.
But again by your statement that when Chevy starts selling the Camaro, Dodge will make as many as they can and sell many, that is stating there is a free market and Chrysler will have to make adjustments to sell to that free market.
I have no more insight to this than do you, so I cannot just state as fact that you're wrong in your opinion, but I think it's reasonably evident and certainly within the realm of possibility, that they are moving slowly in the production of brand new vehicle that could very well contribute to their survival or demise of the company with all the trepidation commensurate with such an important vehicle launch.
They need to produce a quality product, and they can't rush that. If you're trying to manage expectation, you're not going to offer 100,000 units on the first run only to find out there was a flaw in some component and now you have a 100000 unit recall, right?
I would imagine, they are QC'ing the everloving heck out of this puppy, and that will slow it. I believe you're right, when the Camaro comes on line, they will have their production process humming along and will have identified and addressed any problems that will allow them to churn them out.