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Originally posted by pantera874:
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?
Uh, no, they didn't, wrong again. The first 100 or so they lost money on doing repaints and rewiring, but the rest were all profitable. They bought them from DeTomaso for $6000, sold them in the US for $10000. Do the math.
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Didn't Ford send back the first batch of Panteras becoause they where poor built?
Ford never sent Panteras back to DeTomaso. They sent some to Bill Stroppe in California, but not back to Italy. I know, I've talked to people who were there--have you?
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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.
The post above, from a DeTomaso owner 9 times over seems to disagree with you. Are you going to tell him he is wrong? I know this may come as a shock to your Roland, but this "internet" thing goes all over the world. If there were serious build quality issues, believe me, they would have made it to the internet by now. They haven't--just you.
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Nearly no of the "after Ford area" build cars are in first hand in Europe.
Post Ford-era cars aren't predominately in Europe? Where are they then?
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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?
I have no idea what you are talking about. By your statement, the cars should have been practically undriveable due to DeTomaso's electronic ineptness. Maybe some owner out there did fix an electronic issue and share it with DeTomaso, big deal.
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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.
RAW HIDE
Roland
So what, I have a check engine light that keeps coming on in my Mazda, you don't see me running to the message board there and complaining about bad build quality.
Why do you even come here Roland? You've made it quite clear that you think build quality is crap, that you don't get along with the company, and are happy they closed. You don't sound like a fan, just a bitter person.
[This message has been edited by Matt Bradley (edited 06-04-2004).]
[This message has been edited by Matt Bradley (edited 06-04-2004).]