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then the sellers thought it was a good suggestion to place markups on these
i will attempt to dig up the interview, however a nissan product supervisor principally stated straight up they wished to take care of a “favorable supply-demand state of affairs” and “they by no means supposed to match the manufacturing of prior Z vehicles to maintain this restricted” aka we did this on a shoestring funds to squeeze each penny out of the 5-10k boomer-era diehards who pays no matter their sellers ask.
it is unhappy, however that is the state of affairs in many of the efficiency automotive market. additionally see: GRC, CTR, ITS, and to some extent RS3 and so forth
edit: discovered it. https://www.hagerty.com/media/new-ca…st-no-contest/
“Simply have a look at the restricted manufacturing of the peculiar Z, whose U.S. gross sales this 12 months totaled simply 966 vehicles by way of June. A part of that is because of manufacturing delays associated to semiconductor shortages, in addition to a brand new manufacturing course of at Nissan’s manufacturing facility in Tochigi, Japan, nevertheless it’s additionally a deliberate technique. “It’s getting more durable and more durable to make sports activities vehicles,” defined Hawson, the product planning director. The times of us making 15 or 25 thousand 350Zs is lengthy gone, which implies the Z NISMO is a restricted model of a restricted automotive.”’
This pissed me off once more simply studying it lmfao
