Talk:Alfa Romeo 75/Archive 1
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Sales collapse?
So what caused it to initially do so well, and then fall off, as the figures stated at the top of the article suggest?
Introduced 1985. After 3 years (1988), 170,000 produced. After 7 years (1992), 187,300 produced. Or a mere 17,300 in the last 5 years compared to almost 10x more in the first 3. Do we have any references as to what was going on there? I wouldn't call that "commercially quite successful" in the grand scheme of things. More a very hyped car soon being proved to be awful, and after the initial 3 year honeymoon period, the first set of once-excited buyers going elsewhere for their next purchase and the model lingering for a few years while they prepared a replacement then quietly dropped it. Compared with similarly boxy stablemates the Fiat Panda and Uno which just kept selling and selling and selling for about 15 & 10 years respectively (or the more similar strada and regata, of which i think my dad's terrible, short-term keeper Regata was about the only one I have ever, ever seen). 77.102.101.220 (talk) 23:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)