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Originally Posted by Fformula88
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.
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While I know you're pulling those numbers out of thin air, I find it very hard to imagine that Pontiac has a backlog of orders for 3400 Coupes. In November they delivered only 325 Solstices vs ~1300+ the previous November. Another reason factoring against this is their failure to announce pricing on the Coupe. Not many people are going to order a car without knowing the price.
Come to think about it, how many people are going to order a car from a company facing bankruptcy?
The only thing favoring restarting the production of the Solstice/Sky is that it has a completely negligible effect on GM's bottom line + or -.
But I'll keep my hopes up!
