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Originally Posted by gtxb67
what part of $12,000 per car do you not understand
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What part of $60,000 being over price do you not understand?
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plus of course the bonnet, grille etc, which each cost around $1,000,000 from scratch to make and the boat trip to get them there
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Holden were paid by GMNA to develop the intellectual property for the GTO.
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i am happy to be proved wrong, so if you have any figures on why it sold for so little over there, and had free bonnets, grilles etc. i would be happy to change my view
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Holden were offered a supply contract in US dollars by their parent company,
the responsibility for ordering and selling the cars lay with Pontiac, not Holden
who were paid for every car delivered.
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and maybe holden's care free spending at that time was the reason they had money troubles afterwards
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Currency exchange.
From 2006, Holden found it very hard to make a profit, i suspect that their own design
relied on other divisions like Buick, Chevrolet and Pontiac signing up but we know that
GMNA renegged on proposal after proposal....
Caprice and Lumina SS in the USA were no brainers but GMNA resisted every overture
from Holden and in turn gave them the lame duck Pontiac G8...