For a few years I've considered riding the W Body wave off into the sunset and calling it a day once that market completely dries up. I have another business now that's completely unrelated to cars and it accounts for more of my income than W Body Store.
But it just seems like such a shame. We've spent 8 years now streamlining the process. I've experienced a lot of growing pains, learned a lot of lessons and now it finally feels like everything is coasting but we're in a dying market. We have the infrastructure for larger markets and the ability to add manufacturing and employees on a whim but my taste in cars has gotten a little more expensive so I haven't been as exposed to the enthusiasts as much as I was when I was doing the Taurus SHO's and the 3800 stuff. Not many A8 owners are getting together to socialize and if they do they're probably talking about stocks and how uncanny it is that all of their butler's names are Jeeves.
But I digress. I've been prodded into not wasting what we have and expanding. I just don't know what car. Ideally, I'd want something like the Grand Prix. Something that is popular, easy to modify, already has a following but that's not considered a traditional car in that it's not someone's first choice for a fast car.
The Corvette markets, Camaro, etc. Those aren't for me, at least not now. We're looking for the next 3800, the next Cobalt, the next Taurus SHO.
What cars are those? What car do you think represents that demographic? There's no wrong answer. Toss out a list of cars and share your opinions. And make it something cool because I'd probably have to buy one.
But it just seems like such a shame. We've spent 8 years now streamlining the process. I've experienced a lot of growing pains, learned a lot of lessons and now it finally feels like everything is coasting but we're in a dying market. We have the infrastructure for larger markets and the ability to add manufacturing and employees on a whim but my taste in cars has gotten a little more expensive so I haven't been as exposed to the enthusiasts as much as I was when I was doing the Taurus SHO's and the 3800 stuff. Not many A8 owners are getting together to socialize and if they do they're probably talking about stocks and how uncanny it is that all of their butler's names are Jeeves.
But I digress. I've been prodded into not wasting what we have and expanding. I just don't know what car. Ideally, I'd want something like the Grand Prix. Something that is popular, easy to modify, already has a following but that's not considered a traditional car in that it's not someone's first choice for a fast car.
The Corvette markets, Camaro, etc. Those aren't for me, at least not now. We're looking for the next 3800, the next Cobalt, the next Taurus SHO.
What cars are those? What car do you think represents that demographic? There's no wrong answer. Toss out a list of cars and share your opinions. And make it something cool because I'd probably have to buy one.
