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My advice... having hope is better than not. Honestly, I do not think it looks real good. Indications are pointing away from the Solstice. However, a lot can happen.
GM has invested a good chunk of money in the coupe to bring it to market. If they pull the plug now, they eat those costs. Chances are they have a decent number of dealer orders. Say they have 1700 dealers, average of 2 orders per, and they average $20,000 gross on each one sent to a dealer. That's $68,000,000 in potential income they could have by fulfilling just those orders. It's not a considerably high sum compared to the overall bottom line of GM, but it probably would go a long way to paying for the development of the coupe.
So GM has incentive to build it, just so it can pay for itself.
These are extraordinary times, and anything can happen. I wouldn't write it off yet. I might write GM telling them to build it, just to drive home the public's desire.
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