High Orphan Rate?

[Dunerunner]

Don't know that this wasn't perceived as the cabrios were orphans, not used cars. I believe prospective buyers just wanted some reason to back out of the purchase.

[SmartCard]

Originally Posted by PassionforPassionCT

I never quite understood those people that run with the top down AND the A/C on.
That would be just as stupid as driving with AC and windows open..

uh oh....someone's calling my wife stupid!

Them's fighting words!

(insert winky smilie here.....with all those smilies, we still don't have darn wink!)



....25% sounds a bit hight to me!

[cbj54]

I live in Texas with temperatures up to 107 this summer and I don't have a problem with my ac keeping up at all. I have a passion coupe

[my4two]

Orphan rate in Dallas is 3%

[PassionforPassionCT]

Originally Posted by GHammerly

People are willing to pay for comfort, you can even buy motorcycles with heat and A/C.

Yikes, A/C on a bike?

[Prospero]

to the original purpose of the thread

I get an email from White Plains every few months saying they have orphans on the lot.

[CruisingAZ]

I would think the orphan rate would be smaller in limited markets like AZ and higher in California and places where you can drive and pick up someone elses orphan and then yours becomes one and the pattern continues.

[rawlus®]

i think the initial high orphan rate had more to do with people putting things on reservation lists that they had not yet driven than anything else. as the cars become more popular and now that dealers with demos actually exist, i would expect the orphan rate to drop precipitously.

the majority of the earlier orphans were generated by reservations made months before the first dealerships opened, months before anyone had test driven the car seriously, months before they began shipping to the country.

orphans being accepted today were still made by reservations last summer, long before the first smarts shipped.

by feb 09, orphans will have caught up to reservations made AFTER the dealerships opened and after potential buyers would have had a chance to test drive, inspect, look over closely and at their leisure the demos in the dealership. under those conditions, the buyer's intention is inherently more informed. which should lead to a more assured "follow-through" on their reservation, which would result in far fewer abandoned reservations.