Question that probably has an obvious answer to people here.
Cars like the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky and ones like them would have a waiting list for a limited amount with guys like Jay Leno first in line. People bidding over list price to get them. Then sold out.
At the same time they would say GM crisis. Fewer cars sold.
Question: Why didn’t they make more of the sold out ones?
For the same reason a Corvette costs $70K+.
If they made more Corvettes, they wouldn’t be special any more, because everybody would have one. Limiting production keeps demand and therefore prices high.
Waaaaay back in the early 70’s, GM imported a car from Germany called the Opel GT. My stepdad bought one.
It looked like a miniature Corvette, only waaaay cheaper.
It started to cut into Corvette sales so GM killed it.
Same deal with the American Motors Javelin.
American Motors was more of a car assembler than a manufacturer. They bought parts from GM, Chrysler and Ford to make their cars.
The Javelin was a very good looking sporty car. So much so that it was selling too good and Ford the others were losing sales on Mustangs, Camaros and Chargers. They told AMC to kill it , which they did.