[Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the pitfalls of pricing Former Porsche boss: There's no 'right price' for a car

[Hartberger, Jason M. AT2 (AW)]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I love the styling of the car... I can't get
enough of it. It's the mechanical problems (suspension, fuel pump,
transmission) that drive me nuts. Everything other than the engine has
broken on my car at least once. I'm on my third pair of front sway bar
end links in a year... but hey, that's ok, I know a hell of a lot more
about fixing cars now :), and that's why I recommend everybody gets a
Ford as their first car lol, it'll teach 'em how to wrench!

V/R
AT2(AW) Hartberger, Jason M.
DX Production Supervisor
USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71
AIMD/IM-3/Shops 8&10
01-54-0-Q/j-7877

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Fisher [mailto:dataflash@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:55 PM
To: Hartberger, Jason M. AT2 (AW); Shotimes
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the pitfalls of pricing
Former Porsche boss: There's no 'right price' for a car

Once I changed my expectations of the car, I started
to view it more positively. To be honest, most of my
problems have been with the engine itself and not the
car. The gen2 styling isn't so bad 12+ years later.
It's a car that I can look at and not wince.

Ian

--- "Hartberger, Jason M.  AT2 (AW)"
<hartbejm@cvn71.navy.mil> wrote:

> Well I for one can certainly tell you that I
> replaced my "Ford" badges
> with "YAMAHA" badges for a reason :). I hate the car
> (unless it's not
> broke, which is rarely), but the engine is soooooooo
> worth it.
> 
> V/R
> AT2(AW) Hartberger, Jason M.
> DX Production Supervisor
> USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71
> AIMD/IM-3/Shops 8&10
> 01-54-0-Q/j-7877
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: Shotimes; SHO Tech; V8List SHO
> Subject: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the
> pitfalls of pricing Former
> Porsche boss: There's no 'right price' for a car
> 
> Ron Porter wrote:
> 
> >I wonder how well the
> >SHO would have done if it was priced no more than
> $1K more than a
> loaded
> >SLO??
> >
> Ron,
> 
> Obviously it would have sold better, but the cost of
> the SHO was mainly 
> in the engine.  A much more costly design than the
> 5.0L Mustang engine 
> or the Chevy engine.  If Ford had sold the SHO for
> just 1k more, then 
> they either would have lost more money and stopped
> production even 
> sooner, or they would have put in a slightly modded
> 3.0 Duratech, and I 
> don't think any of us would be on the SHO lists
> talking about how good 
> the car is.  We would be over with the TCCA folks. 
> :)
> 
> I certainly would never have considered the SHO
> without the engine it 
> had.  Anything less and I would have been somewhere
> else.  I suspect 
> that would be the way for most people here.
> 
> Don Mallinson
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