Lol, that’s what I thought when I bought my 2017 CTR and paid a good amount in ADM since I live in Southern California. Now I am hearing that dealerships are selling the CTR at MSRP. I should have just waited for the 2019 CTR since they most likely will be sold at MSRP. Never would have thought this car would be mass produced, it pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having badge numbers at this point lol.
Respectfully, there are plenty of examples, some very recent (Ford and the recent GT), of automakers intenionally limiting the production of a car whose demand isnt getting satisfied. Its not just about profits. Legacy automakers have a certain amount of equity tied to their name, Honda, Audii, Ford. Sometimes things are done to further their brand image, rather than making $$ off the car in question. The original ITRs are probably one of many examples of that.
In my opinion the only reason that demand wasn't getting satisfied was because everyone thought this was a limited production car and they could either make money on them when they sold or at least break even. Now reality is setting in and prices will drop and in the next year or so they will be discounted like everything else on the lot. The people who overpaid and financed will be hurting the most.
Agreed as long as honda can make money i think they will stay. The onlyy reason think they go away is qhen the dust settles and becomes more of a norm people wot be rushig out to buy one and then theres tons not sold because its old news. Then honda my limit them or pull of of US market. We may see gaps in producition as new platforms come out because the perfomence models always come last but thats it.
What? Where did you get those numbers...? Production numbers have already exceeded 20,000 worldwide. They probably made more than 3,000 U.S. and 6,000 worldwide in 2017 alone.
Not according to the online registries some sites are doing. https://fk8registry.com/ shows that there was not a hard number where the models switched from 2017 to 2018. The first 2018 appears in their list at badge #05469, and slowly transitions from 2017 to 2018 over the next couple thousand badge numbers. By the time it gets into the mid 065xx's it is almost all 2018s, although in a quick scan I found a 2017 as high as 11179. So it would appear that 6000ish 2017 models is about correct. It looks like the production for 2018 is about triple that.
