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Originally Posted by Tsar
Business is about $$$, not cute and cuddly feelings.
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Exactly. SLP is in a position to market a high performance version of a car GM is allowing them access to and I have no doubt they will move units, I just wonder if it is a viable mass to pay for all the R&D, marketing, and production costs at this point.
It's not like 500hp is terribly hard to find in that price range, so coming in with a niche vehicle may be a tough sell when the competition has a 100k warranty compared to your 36k miles. I see that as a massive dividing line.
The arguments of "I can do blah blah blah for cheaper" are also a pile of crap. Let's see you do whatever and still have a new car warranty. Comparing a new car to a home brew new car to a hot rodded used car is not a level playing field no matter how you want to slice it. You may as well talk about picking up the $500 3rd/4th gen V6 and spending 40k on mods, yeah it will be fast but it still ain't a new car.