Eric's got the Cougar numbers on coolcats, But what about the T-Bird Production Numbers?
Anyone know where to find them?
In the meantime, I'll keep searching.
**Found em:
http://www.vintagethunderbirdclub.org/prod_70-04.htm
Wow.I would thought a lot more Birds were built than that.
1983-88 Thunderbird production = 885,745
1983-88 Cougar production = 679,759
That's 1.56 million cars over a 6-model-year stretch. The Lorain plant (and the Atlanta plant) was pumping them out at a furious pace. They still sold in those numbers despite being in the middle of an economic recession. Remember that the base price in 1983 was around $8K US; in 1988 it was almost $14K US--steep pricing at the time for luxury sport coupes. AND, 1983 was only a partial model year to boot.
By no means were these cars a failure. The numbers may look low, but most companies would kill for those sales numbers today.
To bad we don't know how many are left.
What happened to you having no information on thunderbird production numbers?
I am surprised at the jump in TC sales from '87 to '88. The TC must have really made its mark in '87.
Also kinda surprised at how few supercoupes were made...those are pretty bad ass (and apparently rare) with a 5spd.
The 87 TC was the, "Car the Year" and made really big waves in the auto world. I found a book in the borders here in Sydney and it was dedicated to the T-Bird. It had all of the statistics and options as well as the background of the 87 redesign. It was supposed to be a few million to update cause the MN-12 was already completed and just needed tooled. The redesign team leaned on the Ford execs really hard to rob the SVO parts bin for the turbo coupe. Once the execs caved the redesign cost for almost 25 million dollars for a 2 year production run vehicle, but netted them the award winning 87 TC, 88's were unchanged due to costs already incurred in 87.