[Shotimes] RE: OT - T bird

[don d]

I spoke to my dealer principal who has access to Jim O'Conner ... and some of the other high ranking Ford officials.

The T bird was from the get go .. a Nostalgia return to the 50's and was originally slated for a 5 year run. No hidden agendas .. no smoking guns.

I can attest from a sales standpoint .. when the car was first introduced most dealers were getting $5000 over top MSRP.

Now .. we sell the car as a taurus or any other vehicle in our line. I do think as production winds down and you have only a few left at each dealer, I think you will see prices that we are getting for the cars go up.

This car is a tremoundously built car imho. I am truly impressed with the workmanship, quality and the way the car drives.

dond 

Bay Harbor Ford

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
Date:  Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:48:16 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

>Yes, go get 'em senator.
>
>What do you think is lacking in the new T-bird?
>-- 
>Cheers,
>Carl Prochilo
>1992 Ultra Red Crimson
>
>Donald Mallinson said:
>> Carl,
>> I agree with your entire note below.
>>
>> The new T-Bird is already slated for death within a year or
>> two, they won't give a for-sure date.  Ford claims that from
>> day one, they intended the new 2 seat Bird to be a limited
>> production run of 3 or 4 or "more" years (or something close
>> to that).  What they REALLY planned may take more detective
>> work.
>>
>> Maybe we need a committe hearing and I want to make sure
>> that Ford Security Advisor Condo-lee-SUH Ricer testifies
>> without immunity or privilege.  :)
>>
>> We should get to the root of this evil 2-seat conspiracy,
>> don't you think?
>>
>> (just a joke, don't anyone get political hackles raised!)
>>
>> Don M.
>>
>> Carl Prochilo wrote:
>>> It's not that I'm bewildered.  Ford just did this revival with the
>>> T-bird.  I haven't followed this car closely enough to know well
>>> it
>>> is doing for what Ford's objectives were.  If people were loyal to
>>> a
>>> name, then it should be easy to do some study groups to verify the
>>> design point to make sure that it doesn't disappoint that group of
>>> potential buyers.
>>>
>>> About the Marauder, I didn't even know that Mercury had made such
>>> a
>>> car in the 60s, so much for that!  When I saw that the car had no
>>> stick, I stopped right there and looked no further.
>>>
>>> So to put it perspective here.  If Ford were to reuse the SHO name
>>> again in the future, I'd have a set of parameters I'd be looking
>>> for
>>> to see if it would interest me.  In the end the name can matter,
>>> but
>>> the car would have to have practical appeal to me too.
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