>From what I recall, the sales of the Japanese supercars was all but dead
in the USA already. The Supra, RX-7, and 300ZX were all suffering the
same fate. The price fall was mostly attributed to a weakened Yen on the
international money market....
Dave Yeung
Houston Region
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:40:53 -0800 mick007@ucla.edu writes:
>That's not true at all, the prices on the cars came down from mid to
>upper
>50,000 down to just below 40,000 before taxes, fees, etc. There were
>absolutely no differences in the cars and I'm talking about the
>twin-turbo
>models. Toyota feared they would kill the Supra by overpricing it,
>which
>they did, but it at least bought them some time.
>
>Mick, Supra fanatic
>91T Supra
>88NA Supra
>83 Supra
>
>At 07:45 AM 12/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>They "de-contented" those cars, i.e. remove extras. I believe it was
>>on non-turbo Supras.
>>
>>Matt Murray
>>
>>mattm@optonline.net
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Buddy Ahlers <buddy_ahlers@yahoo.com>
>>To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
>>Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:21 AM
>>Subject: Re: MR-S SF Car Show
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"Matt Murray" <mattm@optonline.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Prices go down? Toyota? Har, har , har...
>>>> >
>>>
>>>Isn't this what they did with the Supras like three or
>>>four years ago? I can remember when I was working at
>>>the Toyota dealership in '97, a lot of Supra owners
>>>were really pissed that the new cars coming out then
>>>were so much cheaper, because it killed the resale
>>>value of their earlier cars.
>>>
>>>I know it doesn't happen often, but it can.
>>>
>>>Buddy
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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