[Gary Gee]

I see on .org that they shifted 49 in May.

Bet Ford are worried...

Not quite time for the bunting just yet.

Surely selling roughly one and a half per day cannot be covering costs of factory, dealers or even the £10.45 per year advertising that they are splashing out?

 

[Gary Gee]

Well If they sold for £19,000 which is what they sell for isn't it? That's nearly £1million. Seems an ok month to me

Ford Focus sales so far this year - 36000, I think that averages out a little higher than 49 per month!
TBH Focus could LOSE 49 sales and not even notice.
Thats just one model in Fords range, guess overall Ford must sell as many cars in a day as SAIC UK are doing in two months.

How much of that £1m is left when you take off cost of shipping them round the world twice (allegedly there is a lot of UK content in the 6, so that must go all the way out there, to be put into cars and shipped all the way back), Longbridge overheads, dealer overheads etc

What does a dealer actually make out of each sale? :dunno:

 

[Gary Gee]

Anyone slightly in the know knows that the 6s in BTCC are pretty much silhouettes with nowt in common with road car.
If everyone who was a fan of MG in btcc bought one how many sales is that? A couple of hundred?
The Cruze did pretty well last year didn't it? AFAIK I have never seen one of them on the road.
How many are fans of Ferrari in F1, bought the flag, wear the T shirt etc? How many of them have bought the car?

 

[Gary Gee]

Never buy a newspaper but Mrs shops at Tesco a few times per week, gotta admit I'm fed up of her coming home and banging on about the 6 due to all the coverage its getting, she even slipped up once and bought one instead of a DVD... :lol:

 

[Gary Gee]

"If" they prove to be reliable I "may" be tempted by a 2nd hand one in a few years, but no chance would I buy a new one.

 

[Gary Gee]

I think Avis actually bought / leased or whatever 500, so theres probably more on the road in their hands than private sales.