Low-Volume Cars and Low-Volume Car Makers

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This thread is about low-volume cars and maybe even low-volume car makers. Not every car maker designs superiorly-performing machines in a 25,000 or 100,000 copy run. There are some cars that are produced in low volume. One such example I can recall is the Ford GT. I don't know exact numbers for how many of the Ford GTs are made, but for what I know, it is a limited production deal. GTPlanet, since I don't make threads for myself, to myself, I leave it up to you to discuss low-volume cars and low-volume car makers. If you wish, talk about how many units of a certain car (or even a truck) are being produced. Discuss why some companies produce a car in low numbers.

By the way, the moment I close this post and await the first batch of replies, something tells me that a normal economy car that many of us has heard before, is made low volumes.
 
The Ariel Atom.

Costs £29,000 has a 2ltr engine, and laps faster than a Carrera GT.

Made by a small company in Somerset. And I mean small, it only has 7 employees!!!

I want one.

0-60 in 2.9 secs :drool:



Shame it's not road legal for you guys ;)
 
Isuzu is a low-volume maker. They sell less than 3000 consumer-market vehicles every calendar year, which is incredible for a 'consumer' brand.

Mostly, I hate "low-volume" brands like Caterham, etc. with a passion.
 
M5Power
Isuzu is a low-volume maker. They sell less than 3000 consumer-market vehicles every calendar year, which is incredible for a 'consumer' brand.
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I find that rather amusing. Poor Isuzu.

Mostly, I hate "low-volume" brands like Caterham, etc. with a passion.
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Did I ever tell you how much I want a Caterham? :D (Take the Caterham out on weekends, use the M45 to commute – poifect!)
 
Any TVR. Come on, you new it was coming.
www.tvr.co.uk

They were the FIRST company to take a race cars engine and de-tune it for road use.
 
RSCosworth
Care to tell us why?
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Because I love the consumer market - I personally believe you can find anything you want there. So, I see no need for low-volume cars which usually never have any sort of manufacturer backing, and I see no need for unreliable, expensive (to buy and own) supercars. It's purely an economical - or at least, a sensible - thing with me.
 
Expensive "cough"TVR"cough". Not particulalry unreliable anymore either since they've got all models on the AJ6 engine instead of the AJP8.
 
You've got a good point there, M5Power.

But TVRs, I absolutely love them. The styling is radical, the performance is great and the price isn't too bad. Only thing I'm conserned about is the line-up. I thinks their cars are too similar. But nevertheless, the Sagaris is still an awesome car.
 
Low Volume cars? The Ford Five-hundred...I think I can count on one hand how many I've seen in the past months, and I live about an hour away from Ford's world headquaters in Dearborn.
 
BlazinXtreme
Low Volume cars? The Ford Five-hundred...I think I can count on one hand how many I've seen in the past months, and I live about an hour away from Ford's world headquaters in Dearborn.
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Five Hundreds are around - how about Mercury Montegos? I've seen two, at the same intersection. And they're the better-looking of the duo.
 
There are Five Hundreds all over the place around here. The issue is actually noticing them, not just seeing them. If you see something that looks like a 5/8s Crown Vic, it's a Five Hundred.
 
Ford's going to kill the Freestyle. And I saw the same Mercury Montego at the same intersection twice.
 
No one's going to kill any Freestyles, it just needs more horsepower.

Did anyone catch Ford's stunning model-year 2005 revision for their 3-liter engines? The OHV one was rated at 155, which dropped to 153 for '05... and the DOHC one was rated at 200 which got a huge bump to 203 this year. The pundits failed to see the move and there was a huge shakeup at Car & Driver because of it. It nearly sent me into cardiac arrest, to be honest.

Maybe they'll keep raising it by three until it's class competitive at about 250. Or, I guess, 251.
 
2005-2007 is a HUGE run!

Plus, I heard like six years ago they were going to cancel the Lincoln Aviator and I could still buy a new one if I so desired. These are the same people who couldn't predict the 3-liter engine and its horsepower changes for 2005, remember.
 
live4speed
They were the FIRST company to take a race cars engine and de-tune it for road use.
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Apart from Ford with the Sierra Cosworth,
BMW with the original M3,
Ferrari & Maserati with any of their cars in the 50's & 60's,
and many others that i can't think of right now. :sly:
 
M5Power
No one's going to kill any Freestyles, it just needs more horsepower.

Did anyone catch Ford's stunning model-year 2005 revision for their 3-liter engines? The OHV one was rated at 155, which dropped to 153 for '05... and the DOHC one was rated at 200 which got a huge bump to 203 this year. The pundits failed to see the move and there was a huge shakeup at Car & Driver because of it. It nearly sent me into cardiac arrest, to be honest.

Maybe they'll keep raising it by three until it's class competitive at about 250. Or, I guess, 251.
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3 horsepower?! Holy 🤬!

I thought a bigger 3.5 liter version was in the works?
 
Cant forget the funnest sounding car name ever. The Gumpert. There is Saker down in Australia. Does Saleen count? I will probably think of more later.
 

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