[Shotimes] RE: OT - Autoweek stuff

[Donald Mallinson]

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.