Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on October 29, 2003, 12:17:06 PM

Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: gofaster on October 29, 2003, 12:17:06 PM
... by Pontiac.

http://www.pontiac.com/pontiacjsp/gto/launch/Pontiac_GTO_Colors.pdf

What happened to white exterior/tan interior/black-faced guages?
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: Martlet on October 29, 2003, 12:35:53 PM
Depends on your target market.  Lots of people pay big bucks to change their dashboard look with after market parts.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 29, 2003, 12:51:51 PM
Nice colored guages, gives a more "hip" thing to this bucket. The grand am always bugged me at night, the whole dash board illuminates red and it's agressing my sanity level.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: gofaster on October 29, 2003, 12:59:33 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Martlet
Depends on your target market.  Lots of people pay big bucks to change their dashboard look with after market parts.


That's actually a good point.  A set of tan Wet Okole seat covers, hopefully somebody will sell after-market gauges with black faces and white numbers, might not be so bad.  Might be the first time somebody spent money to take a hopped car back to a more conservative look.

Still, I wish it came in white. :(  Maybe in 2005.
Title: Re: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: DiabloTX on October 29, 2003, 01:12:46 PM
Quote
Originally posted by gofaster
What happened to white exterior/tan interior/black-faced guages?


Hehe, you just described my '96 Camaro to a "T"!
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: nuchpatrick on October 29, 2003, 01:20:38 PM
I like the white face guages.. looks nice with my white exterior and black interior...  :aok
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: Chairboy on October 29, 2003, 01:28:34 PM
I read an article recently that said car manufacturers are deliberately making cars that look ugly because they polarize the market.  Instead of having a choice between a bunch of cars that basically look the same and have the same conservative colors and trims, they make cars that some people will hate and other people will love.  

The Avalanche, for instance.  Incredibly ugly, but very popular because a big group of people really like it.  Same with the Aztec, yucky looking car, but it's different enough from the comptetition that even if only 20% of the population likes it, that 20% REALLY likes it and buys it because there's nothing else out there like it.

Interesting article.  Basically, the car industry has adopted the motto 'You can please all of the people some of the time or you can please some of the people all of the time" and has turned it into a sales strategy that is working.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: Mini D on October 29, 2003, 01:32:31 PM
LOL!  Ever heard of the Grand National?  No selection at all.  It was simply one of the 5 quickest cars during its production run.  If the car's made to be fast... the rest is well down on the list of priorities.

MiniD
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: gofaster on October 29, 2003, 02:21:39 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Mini D
LOL!  Ever heard of the Grand National?  No selection at all.  It was simply one of the 5 quickest cars during its production run.  If the car's made to be fast... the rest is well down on the list of priorities.

MiniD


Yeah, but you can't go wrong with a black exterior and black interior.  Black never goes out of style.  :cool:
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: Mini D on October 29, 2003, 02:32:38 PM
And black/black is one of the options.  You're the one saying no version offered in white is going to kill sales.

MiniD
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: FUNKED1 on October 29, 2003, 02:39:05 PM
That's not a sports car.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: NUKE on October 29, 2003, 02:47:06 PM
Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
That's not a sports car.



amen.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: gofaster on October 29, 2003, 03:10:38 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Mini D
And black/black is one of the options.  You're the one saying no version offered in white is going to kill sales.

MiniD


Yeah, but black/black as the only option is a lot different from having black/black as one of 7 options with no white/tan.  I'm not sure I can handle the red leather and red instrument faces.  Kinda '80s disco-ish.

Barbados Blue?  Eh, might fly here in Florida.  I'll have to see it in person.  Certainly not going for the yellow or Impulse Blue.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: MEATGAZR on October 29, 2003, 03:12:53 PM
GM has little choice but to go with glitzy ornamentation to compete.  They certainly can't compete on engineering and substance, so they have to emphasize style.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: rpm on October 29, 2003, 03:46:18 PM
It's GM... who cares?
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: narsus on October 29, 2003, 04:05:36 PM
Love the car have a yellow one pre-ordered.

Quote
What happened to white exterior/tan interior/black-faced guages?


and probably one of the most boring color cominations one can think of, but hey beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Re-tuning mine to just over 400hp and upgrading the suspension for the track...it is after all based on an Aussie V-8 supercar.
Title: "How To Kill The Sales Of Your Promising New Sports Car"
Post by: Mini D on October 29, 2003, 04:19:10 PM
Quote
Originally posted by gofaster
Yeah, but black/black as the only option is a lot different from having black/black as one of 7 options with no white/tan.  I'm not sure I can handle the red leather and red instrument faces.  
That makes absolutely no sense.

MiniD