Is the 10% for 350's true?
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You don't need facts to know how business work on a capitalist market, it's common sense. Companies are here to make money. If people wants a product you produce more of them. Do you really think it makes sense for a company to push a cheaper product if they could sell a more expensive one? I am guessing you never took an economics class in school?
Originally Posted by kensteele
good guess, but you might as well since we all are. no facts in here.
for the record, i disagree with every sentence you said.
for the record, i disagree with every sentence you said.
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Originally Posted by dmz
You don't need facts to know how business work on a capitalist market, it's common sense. Companies are here to make money. If people wants a product you produce more of them. Do you really think it makes sense for a company to push a cheaper product if they could sell a more expensive one? I am guessing you never took an economics class in school?
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I work at a new dealership in the Phoenix Area, we get a pretty good mix of 250's and350's. Tommorow I'll check the build sheet to tell you the exact % of them for our region. It show's equipment, and colors broken down into %'s. I know that different regions get different vehicles because we get literally no AWD 250's and I have only seen 2 man. Transmissions in the valley.
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Originally Posted by benhunt
I work at a new dealership in the Phoenix Area, we get a pretty good mix of 250's and350's. Tommorow I'll check the build sheet to tell you the exact % of them for our region. It show's equipment, and colors broken down into %'s. I know that different regions get different vehicles because we get literally no AWD 250's and I have only seen 2 man. Transmissions in the valley.
sounds like you might be selling a lot of 350s, i am curious would look forward to seeing what your mix is learning some of the facts.
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i think it all depends on ur location... in NY ive seen only two 350s and like 20 250s BUT AWD. I guess most people would rather go with the AWD in heavy snow winter areas, but in Dominican Republic, I saw a few new IS's all 350s... because no need for AWD
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Originally Posted by dmz
Do you really think it makes sense for a company to push a cheaper product if they could sell a more expensive one? I am guessing you never took an economics class in school?
#22
Originally Posted by Bichon
Here in Monmouth County NJ, most of the 2IS cars I see on the road are the IS250 AWD. Not sure what percentage of production is AWD, but I'm pretty sure they are over-represented here. (And we don't even get all that much snow...)
Yup, NNJ here and 250 awd is what I see most.
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Originally Posted by kensteele
we don't get much snow either but some but the way dealers are seller awd, you'd think we were in minnesota. but it think they push awd because the stock 350 is so bad in inclement weather. and because the rwd is300 was so poor. i will buy the first awd 350 model year.
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Originally Posted by kensteele
i will buy the first awd 350 model year.
Originally Posted by Chi-town
^^^^I second that statement...I'd be right behind you.
An IS500AWD (tuned to be an M3 killer) would be another story, if priced reasonably, I'd be first in line at the dealership, checkbook in hand.
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According to an October 2005 review from Frank Aukofer (JSOnline/Cars.com), "Lexus expects annual sales of about 40,000, with 80% of them the IS 250. About half of those are expected to have all-wheel drive."
Not entirely sure if this reflects production.
Not entirely sure if this reflects production.
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Originally Posted by BigChief17
According to an October 2005 review from Frank Aukofer (JSOnline/Cars.com), "Lexus expects annual sales of about 40,000, with 80% of them the IS 250. About half of those are expected to have all-wheel drive."
Not entirely sure if this reflects production.
Not entirely sure if this reflects production.
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Originally Posted by FrankyJ
i think it all depends on ur location... in NY ive seen only two 350s and like 20 250s BUT AWD. I guess most people would rather go with the AWD in heavy snow winter areas, but in Dominican Republic, I saw a few new IS's all 350s... because no need for AWD
My mom just picked up a 250awd... she'd rather have the awd than 100hp in NY...
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I believed they planned it to be 20% IS350s, considering the sales pattern of the 325 and 330. They underestimated one thing however, 5k for an extra 100 factory warrantied hp and bigger brakes, thats a huge automotive bargain. What did the 3 series offer for a 6k premium over the 325 like 40 hp, lousy bargain. Ive heard some places 250s are sitting on the lot and theres no 350s to be found
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Here are the production order figures for August....
for the Eastern Region. 715 IS250 AWD's. 37 IS250 RWD Manual shifts. 186 IS350's. The Eastern region was offered 100 additional IS350's on this order from the factory and chose to take them. Otherwise it would be a 9 to 1 ratio without the extra 100 allocated. All year we have been low on the IS350 and really never accumulated many IS250's either. Let the sharkfins begin. If someone wants AWD they should check out the GS350 AWD. 0-60 is about 5.9 seconds.
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