https://www.theguardian.com/business...losses-in-2021

 

As far as 'surging sales' as usual to maintain the dealership status the dealers are forced to order an absurd number of vehicles to have on their showroom floors, not necessarily orders to end customers. A practice by Andy Palmer before they went public to inflate 'sales' numbers and unfair to the dealers.

 

sometimes a light at the end of a tunnel is a train coming in your direction.

 

Strange, I have heard the current models are not selling, other than maybe a few DBX.

 

61 MGA-

Touche' So right...

I remember, I was 25, dad was in the hospital with terminal cancer. My brothers & I were with him in the final days... He said "Boy's, I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel"... Was a pragmatic guy, but we were slightly hopeful... That's when he said "It's a train coming right at me"... Damn... We were stunned. Didn't know what to say....

 

Topic also being discussed over at Pistonheads: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/...1719281&i=2820

The problem is, as noted on that thread: sales compared to what? A COVID year or a pre-COVID year?

Typical of the 'quality' of journalism today, just a regurgitation of corporate or government press releases with zero investigation or application of intelligence.

 

Overall not bad, they hit the 6k goal. AM likely stuffed the channel on vantages. 520 in Q4 and only 1497 FY2021...hmm...

Looking forward to 2023 and hopefully we get some ring spy shots in Q4 2022.

BTW anyone notice AM has new carbon sports seat and wing delete option on the vantage F1...looks good but why does AM continue to nickel/dime each model year with one off changes...

 

Stock price is not reflective of surging sales.

 

I still haven’t seen a DBX in the wild and I live near a dealer …. Like 20 on the lot …. Who is buying these??

 

I've seen a couple DBX's now. A white one last week a couple blocks from home.

 

I've only seen one DBX in Minneapolis, but I think the dealer has sold a few. When I was in Naples, Florida I saw DBX's (and new Vantages) everywhere. No DB11's. Not too many New Vantages here in Minneapolis, but many older Vantages