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- From: Brian.E.Hannon@dartmouth.edu (Brian E. Hannon)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: SATURN PRICE INCREASE
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.165507.28503@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:55:07 GMT
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- In article <22634@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- valdesus@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph Valdesuso) writes:
-
- > In rec.autos, beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Richard J Fuller) writes:
- > >Saturn announced a 9+% price increase for the '93 model year
- > >
- > >any surprises>>>>>
- > Yes, but the optional air bag ($625) is now standard on the car. If
- > you take this into account, the overall= increase is about 1% . This
- > is excellent when iflation is about-- 5%.
-
- I agree with the basic idea of your post (it really is only a small
- increase) but, your math is off a little bit. A 9% increase would
- represent an increase of $900-1350 on the average Saturn (price
- $10K-15K). Take off 625 for the airbag and you still have $275-725
- increase, which is still a 2.75-4.8% increase. This past year
- inflation has been remarkably low 3%, so the Saturn increases are the
- same or a little higher than inflation. Not a big deal, but it isn't
- "excellent" as you would claim.
-
- Bri
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