[Shotimes] OT - 2006 Mercury Milan

[Donald Mallinson]

Ron,

I have no problem with people seeing the SHO realistically, 
I think my years with the SHO qualify me to see through the BS.

The sales numbers just don't indicate a total sales failure, 
because there would be no way the car would survive in any 
form for 11 years if that was true.

I think once you get latched onto a subject, you just can't 
see the forest for the trees.  Marauder, out in 2-3 years 
with truly horrible sales.

Edsel out in 3 years with truly horrible Sales.

SHO, out in 11 years with not so great sales, but not 
horrible, and not a total failure.

All you have to do is not see things in totally black and 
white terms.

Blind cheerleading?  Again, you tend to see things in only 
black and white.  I don't think anyone with a realistic 
perspective will think I am a blind cheerleader.

I love my SHO's, I love the conventions, and all throughout 
my writing, e-mails etc. I talk all the time about the warts 
the car has.  Doesn't stop me or you from liking them.

You can't make a theory fly that I don't understand the 
faults with the car, that just isn't going to happen.
You also don't need to call it a total failure, that didn't 
happen either.

I really do know that you are one of the true SHO folk, I 
just would like you to, just once, see a topic with 
something other than a 100% one direction attitude!

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> We are talking apples and atom bombs here. What the motoring press &
> enthusiasts think about a car has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with it's
> performance on the showroom floor. If largely decreasing sales that only met
> projections ONE year (for the projected 20K/year....and it was in '93 when
> the ATX came out) doesn't qualify as a sales failure, I don't know what the
> hell does!! From SHOtimes:
> 
> Model Year 5-speeds Automatics Total 
> 1989 15,561   15,561 
> 1990 8,609   8,609 
> 1991 9,136   9,136 
> 1992 8,000   8,000 
> 1993 *4,095 *18,337 21,991 
> 1994 *2,497 *11,201 13,698 
> 1995 *2,036 *7,980 10,016 
>  Right Hand Left Hand  
> 1996 91 4,942 5,033 
> 1997 1 (one)  10,132 10,133 
> 1998   **2,317 
> 1999   no data
> 
> It's not my "desire to never sound like a cheerleader", it's to fight the
> nausea from the blind cheerleading for this car and I don't find on any of
> the car lists that I've subscribed to over the years. Get real. To love the
> car for what it is is fine, to attempt to rewrite history to act like the
> SHO was the Second Coming is way over the top, and not justified.
> 
> My description of what dealers and sales people think of the SHO is reality.
> There are obviously people here who take it as a slam on all that the car
> is.  No, it was more than "a few '89s left over", there were SHOs left over
> almost to the next ('91) model year, and this was the case for '89, '95, and
> '99s....plus obviously my '94 that sat on the lot for 15 months. I will
> spare the other years of SHOs, as I wasn't looking at leftover sales in
> those years when I wasn't interested in buying.
> 
> Don, I guess my 15 years of SHO ownership (and having at least one of each
> Gen) doesn't entitle me to have "maybe" seen a few things with these cars,
> and you obviously don't see me as a "TRUE SHO BELIEVER" since I might dare
> to disparage certain aspects pertaining to these cars.
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:12 PM
> Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - 2006 Mercury Milan
> 
> 
> The SHO numbers were better than the new GTO, and no, sales 
> didn't nosedive, sales of near 10,000 aren't horrible, even 
> is below predictions.
> 
> I am not letting anything blind me, I just don't feel like 
> the car was a sales failure.
> 
> Sure there were 89's left over.  With ultra rare exceptions 
> there are ALWAYS cars left over well into the next year.
> 
> I think you are letting your desire to never sound like a 
> cheerleader, cause you to unfairly put down a car that was 
> seriously applauded by all the motoring press for more than 
> the 15 minutes of fame you assign to it.  
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