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Old 09-01-2008, 04:43 PM   #13 (permalink)
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It was expected to be a money loser before the first car rolled off the line, and GM accepted that. Lutz had made comments something to the effect that the kappas would be better for marketing than a typical advertising campaign, and would cost no more than that per year (250 million range).

I'd guess that any plans to move it to another rwd platform appear dead, and if it has a future it will be on a second generation kappa platform.
That's very interesting. I know tooling costs would take time to get back, but I would imagine that after 6 years, a lot of the costs should be paid for. At some point the project has to break even.
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