80's Cars That Should Have Never Been Canceled (Page 4/4) Patrick FEB 23, 08:26 PM quote Originally posted by Skybax: Miata 1997: 17,218 1998: 19,845 1999: 33,370 2000: 15,972 2001: 18,147 Were they offering them as door prizes in '99? hyperv6 FEB 24, 06:12 AM quote Originally posted by Patrick: Were they offering them as door prizes in '99? I think that was the first year of the new body style. Like every C model of the Corvette the first year often is higher volume and drops as it ages. Fiero Vampire FEB 24, 12:06 PM I don't ever see it mentioned but I've always felt that the GM vs Ross Perot breakup/payout played a major role in the the demise of the GM 80 Platform / Fiero as the financial pressure of the payout made GM start cancelling projects they properly shouldn't have to shore up their financials. Of course this is just my opinion. hyperv6 FEB 24, 02:47 PM quote Originally posted by Fiero Vampire: I don't ever see it mentioned but I've always felt that the GM vs Ross Perot breakup/payout played a major role in the the demise of the GM 80 Platform / Fiero as the financial pressure of the payout made GM start cancelling projects they properly shouldn't have to shore up their financials. Of course this is just my opinion. No, money issues were there to start with before Ross and even then it was not their worst issue. GM declared everything was to be FWD and V6 in the 80’s accept the Corvette and Trucks. The Ford Probe was the new Mustang till the Fox body model took off in sales. So Ford kept the RWD car and renamed the car a Probe. The GM engineers just never wanted the FWD car. From what I was told the engineers ran up the cost to get it canceled. The only positive was they had AWD planned but not with RWD. Pontiac had a GTO version. It was shown once and has not been seen since. It is reported to be hidden at the tech center?