Chris,
Thanks for your review. Recall that these offerings are from the
author's, not me, and I specified nothing about a BMW. The only
relationship I meant about Ian Garrad and Lord Rootes is the fiscal and
corporate structure relationship, as well as personality, not the
company. The same thing happens in any old-line company when a product
innovation starts from the bottom up. It's they idea of "selling
management" that I meant.
BTW: Morgan stop selling cars in the US. He would not put on and test
for smog or side beams or crash tests. The distributor, Mr. Qjalle, of
San Francisco, continued to import them them in personally and convert
them to propane, add a little side beam in the little door, and sell
them. His son just bought an Italian factory and will produce a NEW MG.
So this kind of thing CAN be done. And the pre specs on THAT car look
fairly intriguing.
Steve
Chris Hill wrote:
> Steve,
> But that's not the way it was done. Give yourself free reign and
> you'll end up with the BMW Mini with different skin. Like a blind
> wine tasting, if you drove the Mini without being able to see it,
> you'd probably be hard pressed to differentiate it from many other new
> millennium sporters. The way to design a Tiger that truly has the
> 'feel of the original' is to make any entrant into Ian Garrad. He can
> work for whomever he chooses, but he's got to then take an existent
> small car product (relatively tepid, making a Monster out of a Miata
> is too easy) and find a way to shoehorn a smallblock 8 or a truly
> hotrod-able 6 and matching drivetrain into it. Some sheet metal
> slashing allowed, but major structural redesign not. Specs must
> work! Oh, and be able to sell it profitably for whatever $3750 would
> be in today's dollars. Gentleman, step right up.............
>
>
> Chris
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