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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (163140)	11/9/2008 11:52:43 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (3) of 306849

I'm talking about boutique manufacturers in the US. DeLorean and Bricklin, among others tried and failed. You can talk about ideas till you are 'blue in the face', but if the economics don't work the ideas won't either. Tell me how something like Tesla works in terms of economics and I'll take what you say more seriously. All the existing luxury manufacturers in recent years needed big money from existing much larger automakers to survive (Ferrari/Fiat, Lamborghini/Audi, Aston Martin/Ford, Jaguar/Ford, and so on). The development costs for a new car are so great that no small manufacturer can do it alone, which is why even Tesla is having trouble using an 'existing' car and then modifying it while charging 110k for it. I've heard 45k for a new Volt, please explain how that works for the masses when they can buy a 17k Honda Civic getting 32mpg at 17k?? Yeah, let the GOVERNMENT subsidize it!!

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