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Originally posted by Matt Bradley:
No, YOU'RE wrong. You don't know jack about the US car market.
FACT: More DeTomasos were sold in the US than any other country. How can you not realize that DeTomaso not sending later models to the US it would have a massive negative impact on sales? That's pretty basic business sense there, sorry you can't figure that out, has nothing to do with build quality.
And I've yet to hear any Guara or Si owner complain about build quality. You are the only one.
Oh Matt.
You as a represntive of Poca schould be better informed. How much money Ford lost on the Pantera project? Wasn't it about 1000.- Dollar each car? Didn't Ford send back the first batch of Panteras becoause they where poor built? How many Guaras and SI owners do you know? And how many do you have seen personally? As always on cars: don't ask the owners, ask the pre-owners. They can tell you. Nearly no of the "after Ford area" build cars are in first hand in Europe. For example: None of the "engeneers" of DeTomaso was able to connect the Ford electronics of the Guara right to the car. They tried and tried and tried. At least a swedish owner made the solution and gave it to DeTomaso. I that high technical level ? Also the BMW instrumentpanel in the dash always showed: "Check hydraulic level of Automatic suspension" Solution of DeTomaso: piece of black tape over the sighn. At one point youre right: after i have seen Chryslers her in Europe, yes, this is the technical lever for the US market.
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Roland
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Roland