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Old 03-21-2012, 02:56 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by rmay635703 View Post
Historically it was not uncommon for a popular model to sell 100,000 units in a month, not a year, although we need to qualify that by saying they didn't necessarily sustain that rate either.
But OTOH some long-term successes didn't start off selling a lot, either. For instance the Corvette, which has been in production since the early '50s, had sales in the hundreds for the first few years. And even today, Corvette sales figures aren't all that much greater than the Volt's numbers.
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